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How do you convert British recipes to American measurements?

kAY
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    "British?" Do you mean gramms etc. ounces? Honestly, you do it like we Europeans use American recipes with cups and oz. : look up the conversion (table, formula, online tool) and do the math. – Stephie Aug 05 '17 at 06:28

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I'm going to assume you're dealing with British Imperial measurements (as opposed to metric).

The main 'gotchas' are cups/pints/quarts, and tablespoons:

US cup   = 8 fl.oz.  British cup   = 10 fl.oz
US pint  = 16 fl.oz  British pint  = 20 fl.oz
US quart = 32 fl.oz  British quart = 40 fl.oz

US tablespoon = 14.2 mL ; British tablespoon = 17.7 mL

Also see Translating cooking terms between US / UK / AU / CA / NZ .

Joe
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  • and there's also the "metric cup" (8.45 fl.oz; 250mL). And the infamous 'dessert spoon' (9.5mL) – Joe Aug 03 '17 at 21:58
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    not to mention that a 15ml tablespoon isn't a tables-poon but a dessert-spoon. Though for recipes this is now always taken to be ~15ml, older cookbooks will mean ~25ml when they use the term "table-spoon" – Niall Aug 05 '17 at 15:42