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Are spoon measures in Pat’s books level or heaped?

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Are spoon measures in Pat’s books level or heaped?

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Question asked by Mr R Smith, Frankland, UK Oct 2003 Today’s cookery book authors have to be very accurate with weights and measures in their recipes, whereas in fact most recipes will allow for quite a lot of latitude in the measuring. Until very recently no Indian ever wrote a recipe down. It was word of mouth and a pinch or a handful of this or that. With curry cooking, (spice mixtures in particular) you can vary the quantity of each individual spice according to your taste, as in the age old methods. So follow my recipes precisely until you are confident, then go your own way, or at best use them to trigger your memory. To answer your query, you are correct to say that many teaspoons vary in size quite considerably. If you examine different makes you’ll soon see that. In fact the official European, UK and American measure for a teaspoon is 5 millilitres (5ml). Since this is liquid it means a level teaspoon. This approximately translates to an average 5 grams (5g) of something dry (

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