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PG. 28. THE RURAL VOICE/APRIL 1978.
The switch is on
to metric recipes
Canadian kitchens are going metric and
now is a good time for everyone to try his or
her hand at metric cooking.
Many Canadian newspapers and maga-
zines are featuring metric recipes for the
first time this month.
"All you need to try a metric recipe is a
liquid measure. a set of three dry measures
and a set of five small measuring
utensils." says Lenore Newman. of
Agriculture Canada's food advisory divis-
ion.
"For the time being. you will probably
continue to do most of your measuring in
'cups" and 'spoons'. but as you acquire
neer recipes these metric measures will be
necessary."
The food advisory division has been
putting out some metric recipes for more
than two years and has started to include
metric recipes in some publications. This
March, a special effort has been made to
persuade food editors to publish the new
recipes.
"It's best not to try to convert your old
recipes to metric,' Miss Newman says.
"The balance of ingredients 'is important
and you could ruin a favorite dish by
rounding off amounts.
"Agriculture Canada is developing
recipes in metric rather than converting old
ones. We recommend to homemakers that
they use the customary measures for their
conventional recipes and metric measures
for the new metric recipes."
Metric measures are available in most
departmental and houseware stores.
Temperature conversion stickers can be
bought to put on oven dials to indicate
proper cooking temperatures in Celsius
(Celsius cooking temperatures are about
half those listed in. Fahrenheit, for instance
350 degree F is about 180 degree C.).
"Some foods such as sugar, ice cream,
butter. cereals, and milk (in some
provinces) are already being sold in metric
sizes. By the end of 1978 metric units will
be used for many products, including
bread, salt, yoghurt, sour cream, cottage
cheese and ,skim milk powder," Miss
Newman says.
Canadian wines will be sold by the
millilitre and litre and the number of
containers for wine have gone from 53 to
nine metric sizes.
"Eventually, as you use more metric
recipes it will become easier to estimate
the metric amounts to buy," Miss Newman
says.
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