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Janet

In article >,
says...
> > That's why I asked Bryan, who has the book, if ALL the recipes are in
> >
> > cups, because I can't see any in Imperial.
> >
> Isn't it the case that even you Brits don't use imperial anymore for
> anything other than pints of beer?

No. We still use miles on road signs and car speedometers, acres when
describing a garden, imperial for trouser lengths, and most of my
generation still think of body heights and weights in imperial though we
also know our sizes in metric :-)

In terms of cooking, we use both metric and imperial. Kitchen scales
and jugs measure both, and although some new recipe books are now
metric-only, others still give both metric and imperial measures. We
still have shops which price loose goods both ways, per pound and per
kilo.

Janet UK