The U.S. is the only industrialized country that relies significantly on older forms of measurement, like inches and pounds, instead of using metric measures -- units, such as meters and kilograms, based entirely on units of ten.
We never asked for metric measures.
So did the PM think in pounds and ounces or metric measures?
The proposed changes make more explicit reference to imperial and metric measures, but in essence have not changed significantly.
I have taken the liberty of including metric measures in the recipe for those not familiar with cup measures.
The use of the dram as a measuring unit has largely been superseded by metric measures.
(It also makes an excellent gift, if paired with a digital kitchen scale; all recipes are in metric measures only).
Recently Tesco, a British supermarket chain, began showing prices for imperial measures (pints, gallons, pounds, etc) more prominently than it does for metric measures.
Though the metric measures are converted for American cooks, many ingredients, like sugar, are given in pounds and ounces instead of in cups, so having a kitchen scale is a good idea.
I've been playing around with it ever since, converting his metric measures to cups and spoons, and accounting for differences in the gluten content of American flour and the size of American eggs.
The small one holds a liter, about a quart, and the larger one takes two and one-half liters, indicated by graduated markings in metric measures and ounces on the inside.
