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  2. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    (As a sub-packaged unit, a stick of butter, at 1 ⁄ 4 lb [113 g], is a de facto measure in the US.) Some recipes may specify butter amounts called a pat (1 - 1.5 tsp) [26] or a knob (2 tbsp). [27] Cookbooks in Canada use the same system, although pints and gallons would be taken as their Imperial quantities unless specified otherwise ...

  3. Philippine units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A number of units of measurement were used in the Philippines to measure various quantities including mass, area, and capacity. The metric system has been compulsory in the country since 1860, during the late Spanish colonial period. [1]

  4. List of obsolete units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Dutch cask – a British unit of mass, used for butter and cheese. Equal to 112 lb (51 kg). Esterling; Faggot – has multiple meanings in metrology. As relevant to this article, it was a unit of mass, being 120 lb (54 kg). Grzywna; Keel – a UK unit of mass for coal, equaling 21,540.19446656 kg (47,488.0000000 lb) [7]: 48

  5. Metrication - Wikipedia

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    Philippines Philippine (Spanish, US customary and local) Mainly Metric. The Philippines first adopted the metric system in 1860 because of the Spanish Colonial government; imperial units were introduced by the American Colonial government; however, the metric system was made the official system of measurement in 1906 through Act No. 1519, s. 1906.

  6. Cup (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The cup is a cooking measure of volume, commonly associated with cooking and serving sizes.In the US, it is traditionally equal to one-half US pint (236.6 ml). Because actual drinking cups may differ greatly from the size of this unit, standard measuring cups may be used, with a metric cup commonly being rounded up to 240 millilitres (legal cup), but 250 ml is also used depending on the ...

  7. Reese's Is Launching a 'Deconstructed' Peanut Butter Cup Kit ...

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    The kit includes a 10-ounce jar of Reese's peanut butter cup filling and a 9-ounce milk chocolate shell for fans to "create their own giant customized cup at home." "You’re welcome," it added.

  8. Tub (unit) - Wikipedia

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    1.2 Conversion. 1.3 Metric equivalent. 2 ... British laws for the sale of goods defined a tub of butter as a receptacle of a size which could contain 84 pounds of ...

  9. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

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    The factor–label method can convert only unit quantities for which the units are in a linear relationship intersecting at 0 (ratio scale in Stevens's typology). Most conversions fit this paradigm. An example for which it cannot be used is the conversion between the Celsius scale and the Kelvin scale (or the Fahrenheit scale). Between degrees ...