{"id":292,"date":"2013-01-25T18:56:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T18:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturedallroundman.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2015-01-14T00:53:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T23:53:22","slug":"a-note-on-measurements-with-kladdkaka-variation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/a-note-on-measurements-with-kladdkaka-variation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Note on Measurements"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Measure1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Having previously lived in two countries, England and Sweden, moving recently to my third, the Netherlands, I well appreciate that the commonly utilised units of measurement differ between countries and provide, therefore, considerable consternation when it comes to cooking in general, and baking in particular. I recently posted a recipe for a Swedish kladdkaka<\/a> \u2013 a sticky chocolate cake \u2013 which asked for \u2018dl\u2019s of certain ingredients. I have of course been inundated with messages ever since, some frantic and desperate, some mailed and covered in butter or cocoa powder, thankfully none threatening, all asking me \u2013 just what is a dl?<\/p>\n

Well, dl stands for decilitre. One decilitre, as the name duly indicates, is equivalent to one tenth of a litre, or one hundred millilitres, ml. So we can already construct a sort of chart:<\/p>\n

1 litre = 10 dl = 1000 ml<\/p>\n

A litre is a measurement of volume; therefore the units litre, dl and ml ought \u2013 so you might think \u2013 to indicate quantities of liquids. However, in my kladdkaka recipe, I used dl as a measurement of solids, calling for 3 dl sugar, and 1.5 dl plain flour. In Sweden, the decilitre is the standard by which all ingredients are measured. All recipes use decilitres, and the predominant measuring implement is a stack of spoons or cups, ranging from a teaspoon, through a tablespoon, to a half decilitre and then a full decilitre. Packets of flour and sugar in Sweden indicate on them how much a decilitre of the contained substance translates to in grams.<\/p>\n

When I use the measurement \u2018dl\u2019 in my recipes, take this for granted:<\/p>\n

1 dl flour = 60g flour<\/p>\n

1 dl sugar = 80g sugar<\/p>\n

Finally, for additional clarification in American:<\/p>\n

1 cup = 2.37 dl<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

1 dl = 0.423 of a cup<\/p>\n

So therefore:<\/p>\n

1 cup flour = 142.2g flour<\/p>\n

1 cup sugar = 189.6g sugar<\/p>\n

You are to refer to this note whenever you seek to make one of my recipes yet strike upon confusion over the quantities and measurements provided; or else when you simply endeavour to engage in the humane, intellectual act of reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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