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C.mon! tell me what 22g is? in feet n inches!...well?



The following was easy!....£-S-D (pounds shillings and pence)



12 pennies made one shilling (a bob) 1/s



10 bob was 1/2 a pound. (10 bob) 10/s



240 pennies to a pound £1/s



A guninea was one pound one shilling. (£1/1s) used by posh people.



Threpence was 3 pennies. (3d) a threpenny bit.



Sixpence was a tanner. 6d (half a bob 12d)



2 shillings and 6pence was 2/6d (half a crown)



a farthing was a quarter of 1 penny. (you could buy 2 gobstoppers!)



1 penny (1d) got you 8 black jacks or 8 fruit salads.(sweets)



19/11 was just one penny off a pound (you could buy a shift dress for this!)...dont ask...





Why dont they make it easy! like in the olden days?!!!!!!



Grams n leeters and mily leeters!!!! gggrrrrr





This i DO know!...1 meeter is 3 foot 3 inches(3'3")...but how does that help me make a loaf in a bread maker machine?????

Gerri x

Thanks Rose...your alot of help!...not
lol

So to make a loaf in my bread maker I 1st have to buy a packet of crisps?


Gerri x

Oh! Rose...you coward! lol
Bless you anyway :-)

Gerri x

22 grams is approximately 3/4 ounce(.77)

LOL sorry! I deleted cos I realised I had it wrong! I have got a good bread recipe though (for a bread maker) in ounces......

I do know that a half a pound tub of marg' is 250 grammes if that heps lol

Rosex

There, I knew someone would know lol

22 grams is approximately 3/4 ounce(.77)


http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_kitchen.htm

you is welcome..........LOL

Dont you think we should have been forced to change to metric over night like we were with pounds shillings and pence???



I do!

Many thanks Bob

http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_kitchen.htm

Saved to my favs.......


X

NO!
lol I know what an inch looks like, and I know how to measure an ounce with a spoon, and how far it is if I have to walk a mile...don't ask any more of my poor old brain now please LOL

Rosex

if you dont HAVE to do it, you wont!! so a little forced persuasion Might have been for the best.........

Bob
having said that, I realise that I am really a Luddite!! LOL

do you recall some of the cooking programs with chinese cooks......?
it was SOME of this.......and Some of that........a sprinkling of this....etc......?no definate amounts......

Bob

lol certainly if they had done it when they changed the currency I would have probably been fine with it, but not going to change now I don't think!

Rosex

my mum used to cook like that, just throw it in ,usually worked lol

Rosex

It's the American stuff that gets me. Take a teaspoon of this (fine) & 1/2 a cup of that but how big a cup?

strange that you say that , Claire,
but no matter what style of CUP, short n fat or tall and thin, they are mostly the same volume......(give or take a little......)

works the same with mugs......I think.

Bob

Claire

Know what you mean...we have t.cups...yanks have mugs! lol

Americans...plz dont take offence..... lol

Gerri <<<<<has a Canadian father lol

I think our goverment should have changed it overnight!

That way,i wouldnt be struggling with this flippin breab making machine!

1st loaf like chewing gum...second loaf edible....ish

Who remembers the price of bread back in the 1950/60s?...UK

All I remember is that if I spent 10/- (10 shillings) on a Sunday joint of meat. It did the job for the family....but if I spent 12/6 it would have to do two days dinners!