Measurements

[changilass]

Having just read a recipe with non specific measurements, I just wondered if anyone else had any non standard measurements that they use.

My dads favourite is a 'slack handful', mine is the 'wrong end of a teaspoon'

[TBH]

A smidgin.........a pinch.

[wifie]

In Caithness it has to be a droppie - but of course we will all know what that is! [lol]

[TBH]

In Caithness it has to be a droppie - but of course we will all know what that is! [lol]That would be a skinfull in my case.[lol]

[wifie]

That would be a skinfull in my case.[lol]

Hahahahahaha! Now that all depends how beeg yer skin is! [lol]

[Kodiak]

A Tingy Bit

[Welcomefamily]

Just a tad........

[Angela]

Just a spot! ;)

[TBH]

Hahahahahaha! Now that all depends how beeg yer skin is! [lol]It holds more when I am rubbered.:lol:

[Torvaig]

Chist a skifter......

[Angela]

...or a shoogle :lol:

[teenybash]

...........dollup o' this, a taste o' that or even a touch o' the other..............:roll:

[golach]

A Dawd o this an a Dawd o that......[lol]

[Anne x]

A wee drop of this and a dollop of that followed by smidgin of salt to taste
and put in the oven for a wee whilie til cooked

[carasmam]

..... a splooter o' milk to bind :)

[JAWS]

I had an uncle who, if he was asked how for somewhere was to walk, would say it was "a mile and a bit". The mile was fine but the bit always varied wildly.

One which has always got me is a pinch of salt. I've never worked out how you work out what that is meant to be, I mean some folk's fingers are a a good bit bigger than others so the size of their pinch must be also.

[changilass]

I had an uncle who, if he was asked how for somewhere was to walk, would say it was "a mile and a bit". The mile was fine but the bit always varied wildly.



As kids we were alus telt 'there and back again to see how far it is', have to say, sometimes it was a bliddy long way for little legs

[JAWS]

Aye, I remember that one. My parents used that saying if I asked where they were going or had been. Personally I think they were fibbing.

[hotrod4]

I use pounds and ounces!
I'll buy £3 chicken and try and get every ounce of meat out of it!!!! [lol]

[Lavenderblue2]

Just a sensation of milk.

[wifie]

Chist a skifter......

Is that not the well known measurment on the snow-ometer? :)