> As the size of the drinks cup in relation to the measuring unit known
> in American parlance as 'a cup' is anybody's guess. Or does Jim (or
> perhaps Laura) know this relationship?

Laura (goddess of the kitchen and master of the steam-injected,
brick-lined, ion-drive oven) knows all.  She rattled off that
a "cup" equals:

   8        fluid ounces
   0.5      pints
   0.25     quarts
   0.0625   US gallons (Not those weird "imperial" gallons!)
   0.236875 liters
  64        drams
  7680      drops from an eyedropper

Any more than the above, and "my cup runneth over".
(Psalms 23:5)

There are actual "measuring cups", graduated measures
for the kitchen, but experienced bakers measure everything
by weight rather than by volume.

Our favorite device for measuring honey is the "Wonder Cup"
http://www.jensco.com/wondercup.html a cylinder/piston
device that eliminates waste by pushing all the honey out
of the graduated cylinder.  Those living in the 21st
Century will be happy to know that there is also
a "METRIC Wonder Cup".

They use the highly self-contradictory name "Metric Wonder Cup"
because the name "Metric 0.25 Liter Graduated Cyinder" would
take so long to say that their telephone sales staff would not
be able to take as many orders in a day.

I tried to count the number of bees in a cup this afternoon,
but they kept flying out before I could fill the cup, let
alone count them.  Frustrating.  Therefore, I must report
that the maximum capacity of a cup in actual feild trials
appears to be exactly 4 bees, and that the actual capacity
of the "cup" does not appear to matter in the least.


                jim

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