Measurements

Since the introduction of metric measurements in the kitchen in Britain and elsewhere, cookery-book writers have been faced with all sorts of headaches, as it is now necessary to give two different measurements at once.

In this book the usual business of converting pounds and ounces to grammes has been reversed, but the problems remain the same.

The difficulty lies in finding sensible equivalents-one ounce actually equals 28.350 grammes, for example.

So to prevent situations where the reader is supposed to measure out 0.353 of an ounce (10 grammes), and so on, we have followed the usual practice of rounding the quantities up or down to the nearest number of ounces or pints.