Egg replacer madness- Christie

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Now THAT is ironic!

I have not seen an egg replacer here in my little part of Oz- so I am going

to have to get some place different to find it. I would feel so much better

about baking and things where I can easily substitute.

 

Now- this is the madness part..... ready for this..?

I am not sure what size our tea and table spoon measurements are.. ( I think

I can find it in a Women's Weekly Cookbook though-will check in a minute)

but I do know that AU standard measurements are larger than US- but not sure

how it compares to you in Scotland! Bless your heart.

 

We use metric weights here- I have scales that allow me both grams and

ounces so I can still do all my American recipes too if I want or need.

Since Oz is a Commonwealth of the Queen's...one would WANT to think that AU

and UK measurements would be the same......but.......

all I know is this- when I do a recipe that calls for a cup I use a cup

measurement..... and the same with all the others- I just use what I have

and if I get a little more product than what I would have had in the USA- oh

well.

I figure that most things will turn out proportionately as long as i am

consistent using the AU measuring tools I own.

 

Let me go see if I can find that *note in the AWW cookbook......

 

ah here it is....

there is a whole page of conversions and several notes to UK, US , and even

NZ readers that the AU standard is different- as it is metric.

But sticking to the teaspoon/tablespoon quantities:

 

an AU Teaspoon is 5ml and Tablespoon is 20 ml.

( where as US and UK are meant to be 15 ml. How much can 5 ml really be!?? I

know- one or two it won't make a difference- but if it were alot of them it

would add up..but then we'd be using a cup measurement anyway....which *is*

bigger here.......

1c = 250 mls.....but I don't know what the US/UK is! lol)

 

If you would like- (or anyone else who is interested) I can send a scan or

pic of this page to you- and you can print it off for future reference if it

would help. Just email me offlist and I will be glad to work things out!

Oh- and their eggs are large that they use- which is a 60g egg! LOL!)

 

If someone can give us regular eggs equivalent for that recipe it will be

the best thing- and then we can just use the required amount that our brand

of replacer tells us is equivalent to one egg.

 

Hugs ( I want to come to Scotland - and Ireland!) SO BADLY!

Sharon in Oz

 

 

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" christie_0131 " <christie0131

 

Friday, June 16, 2006 10:46 PM

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>I find this so ironic, Sharon, as I am sitting here in Scotland,

> half a world away, with my box of egg replacer which comes

> from ..... Australia! So, my box says that 1 t of egg replacer mixed

> with 2 T of water = 1 egg.

>

> However, I just looked on a conversion chart and it appears that US

> teaspoon and tablesppoon measures and UK ones are different and the

> ratios are also different, so there are 0.8 US Tbsp to 1 UK Tbsp and

> 1.066 US tsp in 1 UK tsp. Grrr, now I am too confused and I do not

> know where Australia and my box of egg replacer fit in with all this.

> Sorry not to have been of more help. What weight measurements do yuo

> use over there?

> Christie

>