Thank you all in the US for replying to me, Pam, Kathleen, etc.

We have a problem here because us Brits are out of kilter with much of the
world - what's new?! :-D

We don't use *cup* measurements in our cookery books.  I was brought up on
*cup* cooking because my mother is a grazier's daughter from the outback of
Australia but here I have become confused in my mind because somewhere I had
got it in my mind that a cup was ten fluid ounces and not eight as you use in
Aus and USA.  Here in the UK we used pints and fluid ounces (note the past
tense because now all measurements are in metric in the shops which I hate).
Now, our liquid measurement is twenty fluid ounces to the pint, I see from
the weights and measures information in my diary that the USA Liquid Measure
Equivalents are sixteen fluid ounces to your pint.  So now you may see how we
need to be mindful of what is used outside one's shoreline!  Recipes for
making up medicines could be a recipe for disaster :-D

With kind regards, Helen M Woodman, National Childbirth Trust Breastfeeding
Counsellor (NCT), Sussex Downs Branch.  Storrington, West Sussex UK. www
nct-online.org

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