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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Tue Jan 1, 2019, 12:46 AM Jan 2019

Got a question.

Got an ad for Cook's magazine. Was leafing through it and came across a measurement that I didn't recognize and they didn't explain:

1D teaspoon and later D teaspoon.

The letter D had a short horizontal line through the vertical part of the D at about the midpoint. What does that mean? Anyone?

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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,783 posts)
4. The only letter I know of like that
Tue Jan 1, 2019, 12:55 AM
Jan 2019

is the Icelandic letter eth (Ð, lower case ð), pronounced as a voiced "th," but I have no idea what it means in a recipe except that it could be a word processing coding error.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
5. I got a set of Nigella Lawson measuring spoons.
Tue Jan 1, 2019, 12:58 AM
Jan 2019

It includes a dtsp. And, it looks like a double teaspoon, size-wise.

I have never used it.

ekelly

(421 posts)
6. The British have a dessert teaspoon. But it's abbreviated as: dstspn.
Tue Jan 1, 2019, 01:43 AM
Jan 2019

Maybe the capital D with a line through it is some other form used there?

Anyway, a dessert teaspoon is equivalent to two teaspoons (10 ml). Does that make sense in your recipe?

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
7. Thanks y'all. Looks like we aren't for certain,
Tue Jan 1, 2019, 02:26 AM
Jan 2019

but the 2 teaspoon measure seems the most logical, given the British/Australian measures of dtsp for 10 ml, tbl at 15 ml, and tsp at 5 ml. It also more or less makes sense in the recipe.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
8. 1D teaspoon is a double teaspoon
Tue Jan 1, 2019, 11:48 AM
Jan 2019

There are sets of measuring spoons that have that measure. I've also seen 1/2 tablespoon measures which equate to 1 + 1/2 teaspoons.

In the day and age with cheap scales accurate to 0.1g, I wish more recipes would reference weight rather than volume.

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