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(Alex Rast) writes:

> at Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:42:55 GMT in
> >,
> (Karen) wrote :
>
> >Alex Rast wrote:
> >
> >>>By my measure, 9 ounces of flour is 2 1/8 cups. So is it 9 ounces or 1
> >>>1/8 cups (5 ounces)?
> >>
> >>
> >> 1 1/8 cups. (I find my old scale has some serious problems)
> >
> >So the 12 ounces of unsweetened chocolate is really about 8 ounces?
> ><VBG> What a disappointment :-).
>
> No, because I didn't need to use a scale for that, I had a pre-measured
> amount guaranteed to be 12 oz. So it really is 12 oz chocolate.
>
> --
> Alex Rast
>
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I find this all rather silly. Surely the original 9 ounces meant
fluid ounces, or precisely 1 1/8 cup, and not that your scale was off
by 80%.

Eddie