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ley say its easy to think Metric A millimetre is one thousandth of a metre and a kilometre is one thousand metres Conversion of unit to a multiple or is done by a simple movement of the decimal point For example km equals 1000 ml 1 km equals m 1000 dm equals l mil dm equals 1 divid d by 10 cm equals m lem equals divided 1 10 1 mm m mm equals l diuded by 1000 lTiere II be no big when cooking with metrics The new metric meisures foi recipes and kitchen measuring equipment will be as close as possible to the old Old recipes in be used indefinitely with the in of conversion stickers which in be stuck in the hick of cook books he new metric cook books will probably come equipped with stickers for conversion to old units Conversion stickers will be used to convert oven tempentures also Under the metric system are measured in decrees Celsius Water freezes degrees and boils at too degrees The minutes per pound formula for cooking meat will have to be adjusted not only tor the in temperature measurement but for the difference in mass as meat will be by the kilogram Will we to convert our present recipes No just keep on the same way but eventually recipes will be shown using metric measures There will be five measuring spoons 15 25 millihtres Cups will be divided into milhhtres conversion table Conversion tabic not much difference between our custom try cups the metric measures 1 or ex lcup 1 equals equals mill quail i cup equals litre Here are three for chocolate chip cookies first the old recipe then same recipe converted to metric and last the recipe as it will appear when all the concern is long over chocolate cookies Chocolate chip cookies Here is an ingredient listing for a current recipe with the metric equivalent Imperial Metric Conversion 1 i cups all purpose flour ml baking soda 2 1 salt 2 ml cup butter or margarine ml 3 cup granulated sugar 107 ml 2 3 cup lightly packed brown sugar 167 1 tsp vanilla ml l 250ml cup chopped nuts 125 ml The amounts marked with an asterisk required rounding to whole numbers or to multiples of Testing showed sugar amounts could be increased if shortening was decreased Revised recipe is given below 1 GRAM KILOGRAM mess 125 g 4 g 8Boz 500 g 1000 g or 1kg 35 3oz kg 1000 lbs kg a lbs 1t tonne 2200 lbs i poi pound logrami poundi 11 kilogiama kilogram kilogram kltoorama poundi ST kilogram poundi SB kilogram poundi kllogrMTl poundi kllogr nam The Metric world The metre the unit of length in the metric system of measurement was created by members of the Pans Academy of Sciences following the request of the Assembly of 1 ranee in In ll7 17 nations signed the Treaty of the Metre establishing the metric system as an international measurement system This treaty established the General Conference of Weights Measures to conceive develop and muintiin precise international standards of measure Canada adhered to that ticty on June 1907 In i960 the adopted a metric system founded on six base units The world wide abbreviation for the International System of Units thus created is SI Today almost per cent of the worlds population 99 not counting the S A is now on the metric system or is converting to it Outside of the United States the only countries that have not yet formally adopted the metric system are Country Population Barbados 000 Gambia 375000 Jamaica Liberia Nauru Sierra Leone 2590 Tonga Yemen People Democratic Republic FAHRENHEIT CELSIUS poor 37 70 32 NO mm no 1 A I Total Out of world populationof370600000O The deadline is is preparing to Go Metric on a itional scale by 1980 and HaTton is getting its first road signs kilometres already The Imperial system of weights and measures is being phased out of existence almost everywhere even in Britain where it originated The metric system has already begun to creep in to our lives Some consumer products like toothpaste and certain pharmaceuticals are measured metrically Last April the temperature in weather reports came in degrees Celsius a new name for Centigrade By this coming September rain and snow reports will be given in metric units is norm it room temperature it the thickness of a paper match coffee cup is about 10 cm high length of a man stride at its widest I is km sue of toothpaste holds ml rge bottle or wine mass of a paper clip y telephone has the mass of kg mass tf a compact car h is the usual speed limit on city streets kPa is a typical tire pressure rear wheels of a car ml ill purpose flour ml baking soda I ml s ml butter or m irg 175 ml granulated sugar lo ml lightly brown sugar I em ml vanilh Jot ml chocolate chips ml chopped nuts Preheat oven to lW degrees grease a baking sheet Sift together flour Baking soda Creambutttr sugars together Beat in egg and vanilla until light and fluffy Stir in dry ingredients with chocolate chips and nuts Drop batter from a teaspoon about 5 cm apart on prepared baking sheet Bake in preheated 190 degrees C degrees oven tor to minutes or until golden brown Makes to dozen An egg is still an egg They couldn t make the hen go metric LITRE volume 10DECILrrRESdl 1 LITRE 10OCENTILrraESc0 LITRE 10MMILLILrTRESml