"Ami Silberman" wrote in message
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We have an Indian Cookbook that was insufficiently peer-reviewed. One of
its
quirks is that the writer converted from metric to English measurement and
then found the closest English measure. It's full of amounts like 7/8 of a
teaspoon, or 1/4 tablespoon.

Cute.

Of course my friend has recipes from her grandmother. One measurement was,
"1/4 of a 25 cent cake of yeast"

Loved that.