In message , at 21:50:43 on Thu, 21 Sep
2006, bof remarked:
US recipes don't use pints, they use fluid oz. or cups (which
surprisingly work just as well for liquids as solids).

They also use a lot of quarts.

Which are presumably in line with the 0.8pints and are 0.8quarts
measures.

I can't really see what the problem is. Don't you have a measuring jug
in US units as well as UK? It's only a dollar's worth of plastic, after
all. (Although the one I have here only has Ounces, Cups and Metric;
it's a bit small for quarts - we are mixing food, not wallpaper paste!)
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Roland Perry