British and american food and cooking terms
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Conversion table:
In Britain, they say... | In the U.S., They say... |
Aubergine | |
Arrowroot Flour | |
Bacon | |
Streaky bacon | |
Banger | |
Bath chaps | |
Beetroot | |
Biscuit | |
Borshch | |
Breakfast cup | 1 and 1/4th cups |
Broad bean | |
Burnt cream | |
Butter muslin | |
Butty | |
Capsicum | |
Castor (caster) sugar | |
Chilli | |
Chips | |
Dark cooking chocolate | |
Claret | |
Cling film | |
Coffee cup | 1/3 cup |
Cornflour | |
Cornish pasty | |
Courgette | |
Double cream | |
Single cream | |
Crisps | |
Cup | 1 and 1/4 cups |
Demerara sugar | |
Dessertspoon | |
Digestive biscuits | |
Dripping | Rendered fat from cooked meat |
Finnan haddie | |
Fish slice | A narrow triangular fish server |
Maize flour | |
Plain flour | |
Strong flour | |
forcemeat | A finley ground meat mixture used to stuff other foods |
French bean | |
Gammon | |
Gill | 2/3 cup |
Groundnut | |
Haricot bean | |
Icing sugar | |
Imperial ounce | .96 ounce |
Imperial pint | 19.2 ounces |
Imperial quart | 38.4 ounces |
Joint | |
Maize | |
Measuring tablespoon | 1 and 1/2 tablespoons |
Mince | |
Mixed spice | |
Morello cherries | |
Neeps/swedes | |
Offal | |
Pie Slice | |
Pips | |
Pluck | Heart, liver, lungs and windpipe of an animal |
Pudding; pud | |
Rape (rapesseed)oil | |
Runner beans | |
Sack | |
Seal | |
Soya bean | |
Stoned | |
Sultana | |
Swiss roll | |
Tatties | |
Teacup | 3/4 cup |
Teaspoon | 1 and 1/2 teaspoons |
Tomato puree | |
Treacle | |
Trotters | |
Tunny | |
Vegetable marrow | |
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