sf > wrote in news:8g7p859k4vhqp037gjucp4jk58479rv2tg@
4ax.com:

>
> I went through some archived recipes today and found one in grams and
> "glasses". I googled and glasses are mainly modern measurements for
> beer (and wine).
>
> Question: Does anyone know what the old fashioned "one glass"
> converts to in teaspoons, tablespoons or maybe a fraction of a cup?
>
> I vaguely remember reading about measuring by "glass" and picturing an
> old fashioned sherry glass. If that's the case, I have one which
> measures at 4 tablespoons, *exactly*.
>
> TIA
>


http://kopiaste.org/2008/11/measurements/


Apparently they still use the 'glass' measurement in Greece........

"I will try from now on to be more specific in my recipes and especially
in baking. We measure with (tea) cups or glasses (which are about 200 ml
in capacity) but again how can someone know what kind of cup or glass I
am using? I’ve had some questions about my measurements, so I have
decided from now on to use either cups or grams.

Personally I also have problems converting butter measurements and I am
sure that others as well will have similar problems so according to some
measurements I have found on the internet, I shall use these as a
guideline for my recipes.

Regarding my older recipes, each time I make the recipe again, I update
it with cups or grams but as a guideline, I have filled a tea cup and a
water glass with 1 cup of flour and 1 cup of sugar and you can see that
the cup and the glass are not full, so now you can get the picture that
in my older recipes when I say 1 glass of flour or sugar it is more than
1 cup.

1. Flour: (my old measurements 1 glass = 120 grams)

1a. Semolina: (my old measurements 1 glass = 140 grams)

2. Sugar: (my old measurements 1 glass = 175 grams)

3. Fluid: (my old measurements 1 glass = 215 grams or about 200 ml)

4. Butter (250 grams):"


HTH.