I would like to make a Zopf and in the book (Steammer book) it says:
1 TL Zucker
1 EL Milch
Could it be like:
EL = Esslöffel
TL = Teelöffel
?
And, are these quantities the same we use in the UK then for tablespoon and teaspoon ?
Hello
Yep, yep and .... yep.
I think an esslöffel would be more like a dessert spoon.
Would this help ?
Happy baking!
1 TL
Teelöffel is a tea spoon and is 5 ml
I normally eat my dessert from the table ..... with a spoon.
In Switzerland? You have a dessert spoon? I thought big spoons all came in the same size - for the table - like soup spoons are tablespoons ..... in Switzerland. Or do you use a teaspoon for dessert?
Sometimes I use teaspoons, depends what the dessert is, if it`s smaller than the tablespoon, in which case the spoon looks better if it`s smaller.
Thank you so much for all the replies. I will proceed now to make my first Zopf!
I have 4 types of spoons:
1- soup
2- one that it is slightly larger and slightly smaller, which I use for eating desserts and ice-cream
3- tea spoon
4- one even smaller which I use for espresso
Let us know if you would need us to test it out
Here we go again - soup spoons
my Swiss soup spoons are very different to my UK ones - and so is the amount of content
That is a very helpful link, thanks a lot. I have been struggling with table spoon measurements,too; we have two sets of silverware and the soup spoons differ visibly in size, so I never knew which one to use, the bigger or the smaller.
I use the set of measuring spoons I brought from the UK, one of these that all the spoons come together. I guess one can find them here, too. They make your life much easier. I got mines from Amazon.
Bread came out lovely!!
I did it with the steamer oven. I must say that I have 0 cooking skills and I just followed the recipe from the book that came with the steamer . The result is amazing and so easy to make. Just in case someone wants to try, I bought at Volg special flour for Zopf, but I believe you can find it almost everywhere.
Thanks, that is a good website, and clearly mentions the differences between US and GB measurements.
I discovered another pitfall: Australian and NZ recipes use tablespoon measurements, BUT their tablespoons are 4 teaspoons, 20 ml (and not 3 teaspoons 15 ml!)
As some recipes are very critical, you might want to remember that useless fact when using Australian Women's Weekly recipes, which in my view are excellent, but they never mention salt and pepper which is strange, http://recipefinder.msn.co.nz/womens-weekly-recipes/
I would recommend you to buy a set of metric measuring spoons, it is very tricky to remember which spoon you used when it states "a desert spoon".