In message , Roland Perry
writes
In message , at 21:43:39 on Thu, 21 Sep
2006, bof remarked:

If they're US cookbooks then you'll have to convert all the pint
measures to 0.8pint measures.

US recipes don't use pints, they use fluid oz. or cups (which
surprisingly work just as well for liquids as solids).

Ah, OK I don't have any US cookbooks, which I guess is why I've not
come across 'cup' or 'fluid oz.' as a measurement,

I don't have any US cookbooks either, but I have some recipes; and if
you buy food in the USA the instructions on the packet will use the
local units.

If I buy food in the US it's invariably been prepared by the owner of
the premises, and the hotel rooms don't have measuring jugs anyway.

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