Chickie's Week Day Around The House Hint Tuesday, June 4, 2013 (places, temperature, kids)

[rural chick]

Hello, Hallo (German), Halito (Choctaw), Bonjour (French), God dag (Swedish), Merhaba (Turkish), Labas (Luthuania). It doesn't matter how I say it, it means the same......Hello and Good Day to everyone.

Now that you've had a gain of new language for the day, we will now turn to the hint portion of this program. Chickie and Grammie just waiting to tell you lots of things which can make your life easier.

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I was reading a recipe the other day which had been posted by one of our esteemed Canadian posters whom I believe is German. I noticed that some of the ingredients were posted using the metric system. I for one am dumb relative to how to convert the ingredients. I felt if one of us didn't know how to convert, there must be more. I know I don't want to miss out on a good recipe just because it's in metric. One of my church type cookbooks had this metric conversion schedule so I thought I would post that.

Metric Equivalents

Liquid:
1 tsp = 4.9 ml (most sources round to 5 ml)
3 tsp (equals 1 tablespoon in our system) = 15 ml
2 tbsp. (equals 1/8 cup in our system) = 30 ml
4 tbsp. (equals 1/4 cup in our system) = 60 ml
5 1/3 tbsp. (equals 1/3 cup in our system) = 79 ml
8 tbsp. (equals 1/2 cup or one gill in our system) = 118 ml
10 tbsp. (equals 5/8 cup in our system) = 147 ml
12 tbsp. (equals 3/4 cup in our system) = 180 ml
16 tbsp. (equals 1 cup in our system) = 236 ml
1 fluid oz. (2 tbsp. in our system) = 30 ml
8 fluid oz. (1 cup in our system) = 236 ml
16 fluid oz. (2 cups or 1 pint in our system) = 473 ml
32 fluid oz. (1 Quart in our system) = 946 ml

1000 ml = 1 liter (1 quart 2 oz. in our system)

Dry:
0.035 oz. = 1 g (gram)
1/6 oz. = 5 g
1/3 oz. = 10 g
1/2 oz. = 15 g
1 oz. = 28.35 g
1 3/4 oz. = 50 g
2 2/3 oz. = 75 g
3 1/3 oz. = 100 g
4 oz. (1/4 pound in our system) = 114 g
8 oz. (1/2 pound in our system) = 227 g
16 oz. ( pound in our system) = 454 g or 0.45 kg(kilogram)
2.2 pound = 1000 g or 1 kg


Approximate Oven Temperatures in Centigrade:

250 F = 120 C
300 F = 150 C
350 C = 175 C
400 F = 205 C
450 F = 230 C
500 F = 260 C
550 F = 290 C


Whew. I think I will continue to use our system. LOL


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This photo is one of a building in the downtown area of my town. This was called the Opera House and was used for not only theater and barn dance type shindings, but also basketball games inside and housed a grocery in part of the building and a bank until the bank building was built. Circus acts once played there too. When I was growing up this building still stood and was a grocery store in the left side, the middle part was a locker plant (where the fire started) and the right hand side was a tavern. In the late 1950's and through 1961 there was a skating rink on the second floor of the grocery store. The supports of the second floor weakened, so the skating rink had to close which saddened all of us kids as this was the main source of entertainment for kids in this small town. In 1963 this entire 3 part building, as well as one other next to it, burned completely. The spot is still bare (several other places where other businesses burned are still bare also). Small towns don't recover well when there is a fire.

[PJSaturn]

Good info to have! Thanks, Chickie!

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[Dallas Kitty]

Aloha! It has been ages since I used a cookbook. I think they should all contain metric conversions!

I viewed your pic before reading and was thinking that sure is a big building for a small town! It was a grand idea to build and use it as you've described. Too bad it burned.

[Jezer]

Sad about that building Chickie.

As far as measurements go, I use the following system;

A small quantity is a smidgeon.

A larger quantity is a dollop.

A large quantity is a pile.

Works for me.