General Chat

Hmm. If you are trying to produce young girl guides, I guess the question would be how many sparks ... how much sparks? ... by weight or by volume ... it takes to make one brownie ...

On the other hand, if you are cooking *with* young girl guides, I suppose it would be how many brownies / how much brownie it takes to make ... ??

And of course then there would be the conversion problem ... the yanks call 'em girl scouts ... anybody got an imperial to metric to US table handy?

Well I feel a need for *brownies* coming on, Cynthia!

Problem is I am still so miserably sick I haven't even got it together to try the mug-cake yet ... and now that No.1 is verging on being as miserable, I'm getting stuck with doing dishes plus cooking, so baking is kind of out of the question. ;)

Oh dear. You poor poorly pair. Sounds like you need someone to drop off some light 'n tasty tidbits to tempt your appetite and save you having to cook and wash up.


Did you know that SylviaInCanada became a grandma a short while ago??? I'll let her give you the details....it's her perogative. So pleased for her and the family.

Now, take it easy.........go munch some chocolate dear :) Cx.

this is such an interesting thread!!!



I've actually had to learn to "cook" in 4 countries ....... UK, US, Canada and Australia, plus also a little bit in New Zealand


did you know that every country has got different names for the same bloomin' piece of meat?


I have bought meat by pointing to "that" piece for many years now. Australia was actually the worst place!! (runs away)




oh yes, as Cynthia said

.............. Matthew James arrived 3½ weeks early, almost 3 hours ago. not a small baby either ...7½ lbs.


And I do NOT know what that is in metric!!!


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Janey will no doubt tell you Sylvia, seven and a half pounds is probably quite a large cupful!! Cx.

lol!!!

Glad to hear he was early -- not really, of course, I just mean I would have felt rude otherwise for not asking, but he wasn't due for another month. I had "spring" in my head, not "yucky winter won't go away".

Okay, 7 1/2 pounds ... is "baby" more like "flour", "sugar" or "butter"?

Oh, that's right, butter.

So you need a large stockpot with volumes marked off down the side - ounces, MLs, I don't care. Fill it to, oh, 3 gallons with water. Nice warm water is fine. Or 12 litres. Something like that.

Then you know what comes next ...

It's the displacement method! For measuring babies and other awkward items by volume.

Anyhow, the other's one's easy.

7.5 x 454 = 3405 grams.

Roughly 2.5 times what your brain weighs!

This is plain ridiculous. I have just typed for ten minutes pressed submit and lost the lot.

Oh botheration.

Think I will have to make THE cake to check if my cup equivalents are accurate. I am currently off chocolate so this wil be an enterprise fraught with peril. I hope too much drool does not make its way into the bowl.

Janey if you google a phrase similar to "what is the cup equivalent of 4 oz flour" and specify imperial, metric, or american, Mr Google will deliver a whole host of conversion tables. Just be sure you work out which country's web site you are using, and therefore which size cup you need.

I am wondering if I could weigh my labrador using the displacement method.

I have, or did have until I loaned it out, the supremely ultimate chocolate cooking book, "Death By Chocolate" I have cooked from it and if memory serves me correctly it is not a Canadian friendly recipe book. I must retrieve it and submit some of the offerings for your delight.

We really should start a new reference group. The Society for the Standardization of Measuring Cups. Or One Size Fits All!!!!

Oh and just read the baby weight. Did you know that in Oz baby's are still referred to by their imperial weight, ie in pounds and ounces.

Some parents do put the weight in kilos as well but the vast majority are still weighed in the old fashioned way.

Ah, the old fashioned baby-weighing way.

http://www.caritas.org.au/blueprint/images/baby_weigh.gif

;)

when J was born in 1974, I was given her weight in metric .... we duly sent out announcement cards, and a lot of people wrote back with "Congratulations ...... and just what weight was she?"!!


so we had to convert the metric to lbs and oz

............................ we decided it worked out to just over 7 lbs!

Janey

I assure you that I for one, am not trying to poison you,or drive you mad.lol!

What's the difference,whether you measure out your ingredients in a cup,or weigh them?? It's all the same to me!

If you read my Easy chocolate cake recipe ,you will notice that I said at the end of it that I had a fan-forced oven,which is hotter than conventional ovens,so that I reduce the temp. by 20degrees Celsius,and reduce the cooking time by 10 minutes.

Your displacement method sounds interesting,I must try it.

EDIT: I stand corrected-I have just checked my set of measuring
spoons and you're right-one tablespoon=15 ml, 1 tsp.=5ml etc.
It certainly would make a difference in my recipe. I will change it in the recipe also.