Date:          Sat, 26 Apr 1997 21:11:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:          Shachihoko <trmiller@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>
Reply-to:      Shachihoko <trmiller@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>
To:            Hitomi Ichinohei <hitomi@terminal.autobahn.mb.ca>
Cc:            fanfic@fanfic.com
Subject:       Re: [FFML] Recipes

Ahhh . . . I know it's terribly backwards of us Americans (south of the
USA/Canadian border, that is), but most people don't use the metric system
for cooking in the United States.

With that in mind, you *might* want to consider converting from grams to
pounds/ounces, and so forth?

Please DON'T!

If you aren't aware this would only work in a straight forward manner 
for certain measures,eg liquid measures are not neccessarly the same on 
both sides of the Atlantic.Cooking a cake using 1/2 a pint of milk 
will get very different results for a british or american measure.
With only one set of standard weights being used conversion is up to 
the local user.

David Peek 
david@hilltown.demon.co.uk