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     Title: # 1 ~ Measurement Equivalents- Metric~ American~ British
Categories: Hints/info
     Yield: 1 Servings

     1    Info

 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. c 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

 CUP-DECILITER EQUIVALENTS: 1 declilter equals 6 2/3 tablespoons

 Cups:   Deciliters:             Cups:   Deciliters:
 :   1/4     0.56                    1 1/4   2.83
 :   1/3     0.75                    1 1/3   3.0
 :   1/2     1/13                    1 1/2   3.4
 :   2/3     1.5                     1 2/3   3.75
 :   3/4     1.68                    1 3/4   4.0
 :   1       2.27                    2       4.5 From: Dale Shipp Date: 26
 Nov 96

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