For American recipes you need cups of various sizes, teaspoons, quarter teaspoons, tablespoons! Like why do they sometimes talk in teaspoons and sometimes in table spoons and sometimes in cups... Some things you have to sort of guess, like my recipes as a kid would say like half a cup of butter but... They didn't mean melted in many cases so you had to sort of look at the butter and guess. Other recipes would tell me to do a cup of brown sugar, packed. Well that depends how tightly I pack it. It's gonna vary! And sometimes they'd just come up with something ridiculous and off the wall as a measurement.
I grew up in the UK with an American mother and many American recipe books...
Converting one way isn't always as hard as converting back. Another example, the other way round for USA and UK , is its easy for UK drivers to adjust to USA roads and cars but harder for USA drivers to drive in the UK and drive UK cars. A UK person can drive an automatic car, and will find American roads wider and better. A US driver may struggle with a manual car (almost all our cars are manual or what you call 'stick') on our narrow and dodgy roads. In the county I live in we have many country lanes where there isn't room to pass a car coming the other way. One of you will have to back up until you get to a layby, and pull over to let the other by. This is less common on USA roads. But it's not an equal nightmare for each to adjust to the other, even though brits love to complain about how bad automatic cars are...
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