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From: lori@hacgate.scg.hac.com (Lori + 8/9)
Newsgroups: news.groups,rec.food.veg,rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Measures in recipes
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Date: 2 Mar 90 00:16:12 GMT
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>dewinter@cft.philips.nl (Rob de Winter) writes:
>   [discussing the new recipes group]
>> Will it be possible to have the measures and weights either expressed in
>> two different systems (American and Metric) or translated into the
>> metric system if a majority so desires.

In article <448@dbase.A-T.COM> dveditz@dbase.A-T.COM (Dan Veditz) writes:
>[...]
>Perhaps the moderator could post a periodic article on conversions, 
>and leave the units as they were submitted.

How about just asking that the recipes be submitted in a format that
a simple conversion program will be able to read?  Then post the (tiny)
source file regularly.  The format requirement could be really simple,
like requiring that a system identifier be enclosed in [] before each
measure:
		[M] 2 ml ingredient
		[M] 1 cl ingredient
			or
		[E] 1 t  ingredient
		[E] 4 c  ingredient

Abbreviations for measurements already have strict standards and are unique.

A program like this could also automatically double or treble recipes as
well.

Now the question:  Is a "pinch of salt" English or Metric?  How about
"a dash of pepper?"  :-)


...lori

Who only comes close to measuring ingredients when she says
"no, gimme a large order of fries with that."