Cooking today. Blending various spices. I swear to GOD if I don't find the whole cumin...!

[conuly]

Anyway, I have a question about all these spice blends I'm making. They all call for a teaspoon of this, a tablespoon of that.

When I was a kid, I was taught that teaspoon was t and tablespoon was T. But now all the cookbooks seem to abbreviate them as ts and Tbs. When did that happen?

Comments

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they wrote an e.e.cummings cookbook and had to make teaspoon somehow distinguishable from tablespoon without using capital letters?
*ducks*

My biggest problem with English-language recipes is that I keep reading both T and t as Teelöffel (meaning teaspoon), because in German a tablespoon is an Esslöffel (literally, an "eating-spoon") so you wouldn't abbreviate it with a T anyway. Happens all the time. And then I wonder why a supposedly spicy meal is very mild. Alas.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

An ee cuummings cookbook!! Bahahaha! Awesome!

[hopefulnebula]

...Now you got me thinking about it, you're right. I always confused t. and T. when I was a (very little) kid, but at some nebulous point it switched and it got a whole lot easier.

(Also, how dare you cook on International PB&J Day!)

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

It's International PB&J day?
Score!
*goes downstairs to make me one*

[conuly]

I had no idea there WAS such a thing!

Isn't it International Autism Awareness Day as well? Proof: Autism is related to PB deliciousness!

[hopefulnebula]

You didn't? :p


(Newest article I read posited a link between hurricanes and autism. Where people get this, I don't know.)

[conuly]

Well, now I feel embarrassed.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

Weird at ts and tbs. I usually see them as Tbsp and tsp.

[rachelkachel]

Those are the abbreviations I always see, if it's not T/t.

Granted, I mostly see my mom's cookbook that she compiled herself, so it's possible that it doesn't follow general cooking trends.

[leora.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm used to seeing and what I've always been used to seeing.

[conuly]

Yeah, that too, which is even moreso odd.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

some people who like to cook... they are not as smart as you.

I've always been one to err on the side of over explanation, so if the difference between a capitalized or uncapitalized letter might be confusing to some, I'd probably think it better as well.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

If they can't tell the difference between a T and a t, how are they going to tell the difference between a leek and a scallion?

[conuly]

They aren't. Hilarity will Ensue.

[conuly]

Oh, I'm not complaining, just curious!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they wrote an e.e.cummings cookbook and had to make teaspoon somehow distinguishable from tablespoon without using capital letters?
*ducks*

My biggest problem with English-language recipes is that I keep reading both T and t as Teelöffel (meaning teaspoon), because in German a tablespoon is an Esslöffel (literally, an "eating-spoon") so you wouldn't abbreviate it with a T anyway. Happens all the time. And then I wonder why a supposedly spicy meal is very mild. Alas.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

An ee cuummings cookbook!! Bahahaha! Awesome!

[hopefulnebula]

...Now you got me thinking about it, you're right. I always confused t. and T. when I was a (very little) kid, but at some nebulous point it switched and it got a whole lot easier.

(Also, how dare you cook on International PB&J Day!)

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

It's International PB&J day?
Score!
*goes downstairs to make me one*

[conuly]

I had no idea there WAS such a thing!

Isn't it International Autism Awareness Day as well? Proof: Autism is related to PB deliciousness!

[hopefulnebula]

You didn't? :p


(Newest article I read posited a link between hurricanes and autism. Where people get this, I don't know.)

[conuly]

Well, now I feel embarrassed.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

Weird at ts and tbs. I usually see them as Tbsp and tsp.

[rachelkachel]

Those are the abbreviations I always see, if it's not T/t.

Granted, I mostly see my mom's cookbook that she compiled herself, so it's possible that it doesn't follow general cooking trends.

[leora.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm used to seeing and what I've always been used to seeing.

[conuly]

Yeah, that too, which is even moreso odd.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

some people who like to cook... they are not as smart as you.

I've always been one to err on the side of over explanation, so if the difference between a capitalized or uncapitalized letter might be confusing to some, I'd probably think it better as well.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

If they can't tell the difference between a T and a t, how are they going to tell the difference between a leek and a scallion?

[conuly]

They aren't. Hilarity will Ensue.

[conuly]

Oh, I'm not complaining, just curious!