Quantities and amounts
How to get on?
- At first get to know what are the cooking abbreviations.
- Read the text, go through the most common abbreviations used in the recipes and find answers to the questions.
- You will get to know how to talk about containers and packages.
- You will learn how to work with a unit converter to convert the amounts in recipes.
- Finally you can do the PRACTICE EXERCISES which include REAL RECIPES to practice with.
Cooking abbreviations
We each get our cooking inspirations from a variety of
sources, and there are many things to know when preparing a recipe we have
either read about or been given by a family member, neighbour or a friend.
What do you do when you don’t exactly have all the ingredients it calls for, or perhaps don’t even recognize the actual cooking jargon your friendly chef has written the recipe in?
Well, if you are like me, you will rack your brain, pull a few hairs, bite your lip, and then call Grandma! But before doing that have a look here and you will be out of trouble.
Have a look at any recipe and you will find several abbreviations there to save the space. If they are not in your mother tongue it may be difficult to understand them. It means that instead of a teaspoon you will find only t and instead of a cup just c. Here you will find the most common abbreviations found in recipes written in English.
CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF COOKING ABBREVIATIONS:
- What do T and C stand for?
- How many eggs will you take if it is written "doz." in a recipe?
- How long do you cook when the cooking time is marked "1 hr"?
| t, tsp |
teaspoonful |
| T, Tbsp |
tablespoonful |
| c, C |
cup |
| gm. |
gram |
| mg. |
milligram |
| f.g. |
few grains |
| sq. | square |
In English recipes they use the Imperial measurement system so the terms are quite different than in metric system. When you use a recipe taken from English cookery book you have to check carefully the differences in measurement. Then you have to convert them.
To make it easier for you have a look at the following:
| pt | pint; 1 pint = 568 ml |
| qt | quart; 1 quart = 2 pints |
| min. |
minutes = 60 seconds |
| hr |
hour = 60 minutes |
| mod. |
moderate |
| doz. |
dozen = 12 pieces |
| pinch or dash |
less than 1/8 of teaspoon |
| B.P. |
baking powder |
| oz. OZ. |
ounce; 1 ounce = 28,3 gr |
| lb. |
pound; 1 pound = 16 ounces = 453,5 grams |
| pk. |
peck = 2 gallons = 9 liters of dry substances |
| bu. |
bushel = 4 pecks = 32,2 liters |
| 1 teaspoon |
60 drops |
| 3 teaspoons |
1 tablespoon |
| 2 tablespoons |
1fluid ounce |
| 4 tablespoons |
1/4 cup |
| 5 1/3 tablespoons |
1/3 cup |
| 8 tablespoons |
1/2 cup |
| 16 tablespoons |
1 cup |
| 16 ounces |
1 pound = 453,5 grams |
| 1 cup | 1/2 pint = 1 liquid ounce |
| 2 cups |
1 pint = 568 ml |
| 2 pints |
1 quart= 1136 ml |
| 4 cups | 1 quart |
| 4 cups |
1 gallon |
To make it more easier CLICK ON the UNIT CONVERTER: