Authors: Maggie Stuckey
Soup Night (41 page)
Summer Salads
Summer Desserts
Metric Conversion Charts
Unless you have finely calibrated measuring equipment, conversions between U.S. and metric measurements will be somewhat inexact. It’s important to convert the measurements for all of the ingredients in a recipe to maintain the same proportions as the original.
Ounces to grams | multiply ounces by 28.35 |
Grams to ounces | multiply grams by 0.035 |
Pounds to grams | multiply pounds by 453.5 |
Pounds to kilograms | multiply pounds by 0.45 |
Cups to liters | multiply cups by 0.24 |
Fahrenheit to Celsius | subtract 32 from Fahrenheit temperature, multiply by 5, then divide by 9 |
Celsius to Fahrenheit | multiply Celsius temperature by 9, divide by 5, then add 32 |
U.S. | Metric |
1 teaspoon | 5 milliliters |
1 tablespoon | 15 milliliters |
1 | 60 milliliters |
1 | 120 milliliters |
1 cup | 230 milliliters |
1 | 300 milliliters |
1 | 360 milliliters |
2 cups | 460 milliliters |
2 | 600 milliliters |
3 cups | 700 milliliters |
4 cups (1 quart) | 0.95 liter |
1.06 quarts | 1 liter |
4 quarts (1 gallon) | 3.8 liters |
U.S. | Metric |
1 | 7 grams |
1 | 14 grams |
1 ounce | 28 grams |
1 | 35 grams |
1 | 40 grams |
2 | 70 grams |
4 ounces | 112 grams |
5 ounces | 140 grams |
8 ounces | 228 grams |
10 ounces | 280 grams |
15 ounces | 425 grams |
16 ounces (1 pound) | 454 grams |
Metric | U.S. |
1 gram | 0.035 ounce |
50 grams | 1.75 ounces |
100 grams | 3.5 ounces |
250 grams | 8.75 ounces |
500 grams | 1.1 pounds |
1 kilogram | 2.2 pounds |
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Edited by Margaret Sutherland
Art direction by Mary Winkelman Velgos
Cover design, book design, and text production by Stewart A. Williams Design
Cover photography by © Lara Ferroni
Interior photography by © Lara Ferroni, except for: Mars Vilaubi, 11, 18, 31, 66, 97, 161, 203, 207, 221, 227, 229, 271, 289 and 290; Alethea Morrison, 251; Carolyn Eckert, 265; © Margaret Stuckey, 13, 235, and 237
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© 2013 by Maggie Stuckey
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September 24, 2013
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