astray recipes: Foreign/us equivalents

Categories: Info/tips
Yield: 60 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
	Icing sugar; powdered sugar
	Caster Sugar;Superfine sugar
	Demerara; light brown sugar*
	Muscovado; raw unrefind sugr
	Cornflour; Cornstarch
	Sultanas; White raisins
	Single Cream; Light cream
	Double Cream; Heavy Cream
	Bicarbonate of soda; Baking Soda
	Digestive Biscuits; Graham crackers
	Biscuit; Cookie or cracker
	Minced meat; Ground meat
	Aubergine; Eggplant
	Beetroot; Beet
	Courgette; zucchini
	Marrow: lg zucchini
	Swede; Rutabaga
	Porcini: boletus
	Mangetout; snow/sugar peas
1 ounce	Chocolate; 1 square
⅔ ounce	Bakers yeast; 1 cake
3 teaspoons	Dried yeast; 1 cake
1 cup	= 10 fl oz = 1-1/4 c
1 teaspoon	1-1/4 ts
1 tablespoon	1-1/4 tb
1 cup	Imperial; 10 fl oz = 1-1/4 c
1 cup	1 c + 2 tb
1 teaspoon	5 ml
1 tablespoon	1 tb + 1-1/2 ts
1 tablespoon	20 ml
1 cup	250 ml

BRITISH/AMERICAN EQUIVALENTS

AUSTRALIAN/AMERICAN EQUIVALE

* demerara: a brown sugar, but each grain is kind of separate. If you have a Carribean store in your neighbourhood, their brown sugar is what you want. But you can substitute light brown sugar for it.

Muscvada: Very dark brown sugar (almost black), sticks together in one solid lump and has to be prised apart. The rawest (and tastiest) of all the sugars. Really good for dark cakes and especially Christmas puddings.

Brown crystal. Very large variagated brown crystals of sugar, hard and crunchy usually used in coffee. Collected from posts on GEnie Food & Wine RT by COOKIE-LADY, and posts on Fido Cooking echo by RICH HARPER, GEOFF PERCIVAL, LORNA PRICE, BOB EMERT, Dale & Gail Shipp, and ERIC DECKER. Special thanks to ANNE MACLELLAN for actually comparing her set of Australian measures.

MM by Sylvia Steiger, GEnie THE.STEIGERS, CI$ 71511,2253, Internet sylvia.steiger@..., moderator of GT Cookbook and PlanoNet Lowfat & Luscious echoes

foreign/us equivalents