One more question-measurement

Islands said:

..... I also thought I'd bring chocolate chips
so she can make cookies for her 4 kids. They have a standard recipe on
the bag but what about translating to metric, I suppose she can look it
up online? ....

My guess is that the bags of chocolate chips they sell in France have
the same recipe with metric quantities. In any case, conversions are
certainly easy to find. There are some in the FAQs for this group, for
example. -aem

Google can help here.
www.google.com
Search on :
3 oz in grams
and google returns :
3 ounces = 85.0485694 grams

Dean G.

Islands said:

Hi everyone,
I asked for suggestions as to what to bring my French friend when I go
visit. After calling the airlines and spending a good hour being read
the fine print as to what is permissible (boy the French are strict) we
could not find out if I can bring in locally grown dates, so I'm going
to do it anyway along with another locally grown nut-pistachios and if
it gets tossed then so be it. I also thought I'd bring chocolate chips
so she can make cookies for her 4 kids. They have a standard recipe on
the bag but what about translating to metric, I suppose she can look it
up online? Please forgive me but I'm not much of a cook/baker (to put
it kindly) will this be a problem?

A cup is roughly 250 ml
1 Tsp is 5 ml
1Tbsp is 15 ml

Islands said:

Hi everyone,
I asked for suggestions as to what to bring my French friend when I go
visit. After calling the airlines and spending a good hour being read
the fine print as to what is permissible (boy the French are strict) we
could not find out if I can bring in locally grown dates, so I'm going
to do it anyway along with another locally grown nut-pistachios and if
it gets tossed then so be it. I also thought I'd bring chocolate chips
so she can make cookies for her 4 kids. They have a standard recipe on
the bag but what about translating to metric, I suppose she can look it
up online? Please forgive me but I'm not much of a cook/baker (to put
it kindly) will this be a problem?
TIA

You can bring the dates but know that the French can get superb dates
from any of their former colonies.

Do her kids like chocolate chip cookies? Don't try to convert the
recipe to metric. She can look up a French recipe for chocolate chip
cookies and work from there.

Arri London said:

Islands said:

Hi everyone,
I asked for suggestions as to what to bring my French friend when I go
visit. After calling the airlines and spending a good hour being read
the fine print as to what is permissible (boy the French are strict) we
could not find out if I can bring in locally grown dates, so I'm going
to do it anyway along with another locally grown nut-pistachios and if
it gets tossed then so be it. I also thought I'd bring chocolate chips
so she can make cookies for her 4 kids. They have a standard recipe on
the bag but what about translating to metric, I suppose she can look it
up online? Please forgive me but I'm not much of a cook/baker (to put
it kindly) will this be a problem?
TIA

You can bring the dates but know that the French can get superb dates
from any of their former colonies.

The spineless two faced frogs get plenty pistachios from iran. And
europe has chocolate running out the kazoos.

I'd bring real maple syrup, wonderful cashews from zenobia.com, a big
ole jug of Jack Daniels, and speaking of jugs snuggle a pair of
avocados in your bra.

Sheldon

On 18 Jan 2006 10:33:24 -0800, "Islands" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Hi everyone,
I asked for suggestions as to what to bring my French friend when I go
visit. After calling the airlines and spending a good hour being read
the fine print as to what is permissible (boy the French are strict) we
could not find out if I can bring in locally grown dates, so I'm going
to do it anyway along with another locally grown nut-pistachios and if
it gets tossed then so be it. I also thought I'd bring chocolate chips
so she can make cookies for her 4 kids. They have a standard recipe on
the bag but what about translating to metric, I suppose she can look it
up online? Please forgive me but I'm not much of a cook/baker (to put
it kindly) will this be a problem?
TIA

Local honey fin small jars hand-labeled to the friend in a small
wicker basket.

jim

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Quoted message said:

Islands said:

..... I also thought I'd bring chocolate chips
so she can make cookies for her 4 kids. They have a standard recipe on
the bag but what about translating to metric, I suppose she can look it
up online? ....

My guess is that the bags of chocolate chips they sell in France have
the same recipe with metric quantities. -aem

Do they sell bags of chocolate chips in France? Here in the Netherlands they
do not.
--Katrina

--Snipped xenophobic [censored]--

Quoted message said:

I'd bring real maple syrup,

Excellent idea. Maple syrup is available here on the continent, but only for
high prices for small amounts of rather second-rate stuff.

Quoted message said:

wonderful cashews

We do get very nice cashews here from Spain and Israel.

Quoted message said:

Jack Daniels,

Plenty of that here already.

Quoted message said:

and speaking of jugs snuggle a pair of
avocados in your bra.

There's nothing wrong with the avocados we get here from South Africa,
Israel, Spain, and Morocco.

Let's see, what would be a good thing to bring.... Extra-sharp cheddar
cheese. There's plenty of English cheddar around, and it's really great
stuff, but the American is different and equally great stuff, and there's
nothing here that really compared to the extra-sharp varieties.
--Katrina (the Netherlands)

White Monkey said:

Do they sell bags of chocolate chips in France? Here in the Netherlands they
do not.
--Katrina

I'm surprised to hear that. Here in the US the most popular brand has
always been Nestle's, which sells all over the world. Probably a
question of what each market wants? -aem