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Crash Test Dummy
If you've tried to make an old British recipe (the kind in pounds and ounces as opposed to metric), you will, no doubt, have tripped up over the spoon measures. British teaspoons and tablespoons are approximately one-third larger. That gill of milk? It's 5 fluid ozs. And if you've tried to make a recipe written in metric, you may have given up in disgust, especially if it called for "aubergine" or "swede." Here's a handy page with conversions for all those strange measures and translations for those weird vegetable names:
Conversion and ingredient information
Conversion and ingredient information