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Oh, kill me now
Jan. 29th, 2011 08:57 pmWe officially have THREE DIFFERENT cup-measurement systems in this kitchen.
* I had a set of plastic measuring cups, and K has two glass measuring jugs, in standard Australian cups
* K came back from Canada with two new measuring cups
* I now have a multi-measure with both English and American cup sizes on it
I have always used my mother's multi-measure (similar to mine) in concert with standard measuring cups and never compared the two. However, K is an investigatory sort of person, and she filled up a standard cup measure and poured it into the multi-measure.
Turns out - and Wikipedia confirms this - that an Australian cup is about 10ml bigger than an American cup and 30ml smaller than an English cup.
So I guess now we need to decide which measuring system we're working from, and choose cups accordingly! This is more difficult than it sounds, since I have many hand-written recipes which came from my great-grandmother's recipe books or were taught to my mother verbally. Some of them are Australian and some of them are likely to be of English extraction originally and I don't necessarily know which! And then I have ones from the internet and K has stacks of family recipes of hers - and the measuring cups she brought back from Canada are american, but according to Wiki the Canadians ought to have the same standard cup as us.
It's a wonder anyone ever cooks anything. I demand all measurements be given in either millilitres or fluid ounces, you can CALCULATE those exactly.
* I had a set of plastic measuring cups, and K has two glass measuring jugs, in standard Australian cups
* K came back from Canada with two new measuring cups
* I now have a multi-measure with both English and American cup sizes on it
I have always used my mother's multi-measure (similar to mine) in concert with standard measuring cups and never compared the two. However, K is an investigatory sort of person, and she filled up a standard cup measure and poured it into the multi-measure.
Turns out - and Wikipedia confirms this - that an Australian cup is about 10ml bigger than an American cup and 30ml smaller than an English cup.
So I guess now we need to decide which measuring system we're working from, and choose cups accordingly! This is more difficult than it sounds, since I have many hand-written recipes which came from my great-grandmother's recipe books or were taught to my mother verbally. Some of them are Australian and some of them are likely to be of English extraction originally and I don't necessarily know which! And then I have ones from the internet and K has stacks of family recipes of hers - and the measuring cups she brought back from Canada are american, but according to Wiki the Canadians ought to have the same standard cup as us.
It's a wonder anyone ever cooks anything. I demand all measurements be given in either millilitres or fluid ounces, you can CALCULATE those exactly.