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Re: crumpet recipe in bread-bakers.v103.n006

RosesCakeBible@aol.com
Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:57:30 EST
v103.n007.16
alert re the crumpet recipe: the water was given as 300 ml, 1/2 pint (which
is 8 fluid ounces). but the milk was given as 225 ml, 8 fluid ounces. one or
the other has to be wrong.

Rose Levy Beranbaum

[[ Editor's note:

Ahh, the wonders of the measurement systems of the US and the UK.

Again, from the "How Many?" website as posted in bread-bakers.v103.n005.2
  http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html

The US fluid ounce is 1/16 of a pint.  There are 2 pints in a quart and 4 
quarts in a gallon.  The US system uses the traditional British wine 
gallon, defined as 231 cubic inches by Parliament in 1707.  The US fluid 
ounce is about 29.57 milliliters.

The British Imperial fluid ounce is 1/20 of an Imperial pint or 1/160 of an 
Imperial gallon.  The Imperial gallon was defined by Parliament in 1824 to 
be exactly 277.42 cubic inches, which is the volumn of 10 pounds of water 
under certain conditions.  The imperial fluid ounce is about 28.41 milliliters.

So, since this recipe is from the ** British ** edition of the Good 
Housekeeping cookbook, the pints and fluid ounces are Imperial, not US.

1/2 Imperial pint = 10 Imperial fluid ounces = 284.1 ml which is close to 
300 ml
8 Imperial fluid ounces = 8 * 28.41 = 227.28 ml, close to 225 ml

So if you have US measuring cups and you're working from a British recipe, 
hope that the recipe has metric ingredient quantities so you don't have to 
turn on the computer and search for this post!

PS - there is a typo in v103.n005.2 - it says "cubic ounces" instead of 
"cubic inches".  It will be fixed in the archives.  We will also add a note 
about the Imperial measurements to the crumpet recipe.

Jeff & Reggie ]]