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The baker has determined how much a recipe's ingredients weigh, and uses uniform decimal weight units. All ingredient weights are divided by the flour weight to obtain a ratio, then the ratio is multiplied by 100% to yield the baker's percentage for that ingredient:
American cooks using British recipes, and vice versa, need to be careful with pints and fluid ounces. A US pint is 473 mL, while a UK pint is 568 mL, about 20% larger. A US fluid ounce is 1 ⁄ 16 of a US pint (29.6 mL); a UK fluid ounce is 1 ⁄ 20 UK pint (28.4 mL). This makes an Imperial pint equivalent to 19.2 US fluid ounces.
The apothecaries and troy pounds are divided into 12 ounces (of 480 grains) while the avoirdupois pound has 16 ounces (of 437.5 grains). The unit of volume, the gallon, has different values in the United States and in the United Kingdom – the US fluid gallon being about 0.83 imperial gallons and the US dry gallon being about 0.97 imperial ...
Vermilion (1706): "3 to 4 hundred weight" (i.e. 336-448 pounds) Camphor (1858): "130 Dutch lbs" In Newfoundland , Canada, a tub of coal was defined as 100 pounds, while a tub of herrings was 16 Imperial gallons and a tub of salt was 18 Imperial gallons.
Peanut Butter & Berries Waffle Sandwich. Sara Haas. Whole-grain freezer waffles make the perfect base for a nourishing breakfast that tastes just like a classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich ...
Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor that changes the unit without changing the quantity. This is also often loosely taken to include replacement of a quantity with a corresponding quantity that describes the same physical property.
If you're making baked potatoes, figure each person will eat one large (1/2 pound) potato. Based on everyone consuming 1/2 pound, here’s how much you’ll need to get: 4 people – 2 pounds (4 ...
Barry Enderwick is eating his way through history, one sandwich at a time. Every day from his home in San Jose, California, Enderwick posts a cooking video from a recipe that time forgot.