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Cooking temperatures, weights and measures:
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Approx. Metric Equivalents by Volume
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Oven Temperatures: British and U.S.
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Common Cooking Terms
| British | U.S. |
| aubergine | eggplant |
| bangers | sausage |
| beetroot | beet |
| bilberry | blueberry |
| biscuit | cracker or cookie |
| broad bean | fava bean |
| caster sugar | superfine granulated sugar |
| chips | french-fried potatoes |
| cling film | plastic wrap |
| collops | meatballs |
| corn flour | corn starch |
| cornish pasty | meat turnover |
| courgette | zucchini |
| cream, double | heavy cream |
| cream, single | light cream |
| crisps | potato chips |
| dripping | fat from roasted meat |
| finnan haddie | smoked haddock |
| fish slice | spatula |
| flour, maize | cornmeal |
| flour, strong | bread flour; hard-wheat flour |
| forcemeat | stuffing mixture for meat or fish |
| french bean | green bean |
| gammon | ham |
| golden syrup | substitute light corn syrup |
| groundnut | peanut |
| hand of pork | pork shoulder roast |
| heaped spoonful | heaping spoonful |
| icing sugar | confectioners' (powdered) sugar |
| joint | large cut of meat with bone; roast |
| marrow | zucchini-like squash |
| mince (n.) | ground meat |
| offal | variety meats (liver, heart, kidney) |
| oxford sauce | cumberland sauce |
| pie dish | deep baking dish |
| pig's trotter | pig's foot |
| pine kernels | pine nuts |
| pips | seeds |
| pluck (n.) | heart, liver, and lights (lungs) |
| pudding | dessert |
| sack | sweet sherry |
| shandy | beer with lemonade |
| silverside | beefcut from the rump |
| stoned | seeded |
| sultanas | golden raisins |
| treacle | molasses |
| tunny | tuna |
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