How to measure ingredients

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Slight change of direction for the thread but I picked up a leaflet with some recipes in COOP that I want to try but I want to check I am reading the German abbreviations correctly.

1P and 1B means a sachet or packet (eg yeast).

1 Teel is a teaspoon and 1 Essl. is a tablespoon.

1 Prise is a pinch.

What does 1 Dose and etwas mean (they are not together)?

Thanks

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Dose is roughly a can or a tin of something (depending on whether you prefer American or British English).

Etwas means a little bit. I usually assume that means "to taste"

HTH

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I'm Canadian but I absolutely HATE the cups system. It's additional things for me to put in the dishwasher (if it's different amounts, I have several additional cup containers to wash) rather than just sticking one bowl on my scale, setting it to 0, and dumping all the ingredients in by weight. No messes or spills, very little clean up. Cups are especially annoying when you have to measure butter, or other sticky things. How ridiculous is it to mash butter into a cup, making sure to fill all the spaces, and then scoop the oily mess into your bowl? Makes no sense. I know in N. America butter wrappers are now marked, so essentially they are going by weight as well.

Haha sorry for the rant but I simply HATE this totally illogical and outdated cups system, as I like to bake N. American recipes and many online recipe sites don't have metric conversions included. It's an absolute pain.

As for ginger, or other things which you only need a small amount of - european recipes will list these in teaspoons or tablespoons as well.

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When did you study at La Varenne? I was a stagiaire there in the late '80s.

This is my favorite conversion site, as it is ingredient based and fairly complete:

http://www.onlineconversion.com/weig...me_cooking.htm

Cup measures are useless for baking, they aren't accurate enough due to moisture variations and make no allowance for settling, etc.

I bought a US/metric measuring cup at Manor that makes following American cooking recipes easier, no need for converting. They have a few at different prices and sizes.