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Default American ingredients names

Geordie wrote on Mon, 03 May 2010 07:13:35 +1000:

> I've written a blog entry about American names for ingredients
> and what their rest-of-English-speaking-world equivalents are,
> it's at http://bit.ly/a8gIcv


> One American friend expressed surprise that she'd never heard
> any of these, instead saying that all the Australian English
> terms were commonplace. That's not accurate, but some might
> be more common than others. I'd be curious for people's
> comments about what is commonplace and what isn't, and any I
> might have missed.


Since we American are in the majority, one might, if one was to be
obnoxious, say standard English cooking terms with translations for
other dialects :-)

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