Recipe - Measurement Equivalents

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From: Sallie Austin, INTERCOOK echo

AMERICAN LIQUID MEASUREMENTS CONVERTED TO METRIC:

American: Liquid Grams: Other American Abbreviations: teaspoon 5 t.
t
tsp tspn tablespoon 15 T. T Tbsp Tbspn cup 227 c. cup C
C. pint 454 pt. pt quart 907 qt. qt gallon 3628 gal. gal

Note: British liquid ounce is 1.04 times the American ounce; the British
pint contains 20 British ounces; and the British quart, 40 ounces. A gill
is 5 ounces, or about 2/3 of an American cup. The pint (liquid) weighs a
pound everywhere except in England where a pint weighs a pound and a
quarter. British dry measures for ounces and pounds, and linear measures
for inches and feet, are the same as American measures.

CONVERSION FORMULAS American, British, Metric:

To Convert: Multiply:
: By: Ounces to grams the ounces 28.35 Grams to
ounces
the grams 0.035 Liters to American quarts the
liters 0.95 Liters to British quarts the liters
: 0.88 American quarts to liters the quarts 1.057 British
quarts to liters
the quarts 1.14 Inches to centimeters the inches 2.54
Centimeters to inches the centimeters
0.39

CUPDECILITER EQUIVALENTS: 1 declilter equals 6 2/3 tablespoons

Cups: Deciliters: Cups: Deciliters:
: One fourth 0.56 1 One fourth 2.83
: 1/3 0.75 1 1/3 3.0
: One half 1/13 1 One half 3.4
: 2/3 1.5 1 2/3 3.75
: Three fourths 1.68 1 Three fourths 4.0
: 1 2.27 2 4.5

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