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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phoenix" data-source="post: 311201" data-attributes="member: 12578">Interesting question Sid.As a child I learned to cook using tablespoons as measurements but the tablespoons I used were bigger** than the measuring spoons I use now.I looked it up in an old copy of Mrs Beeton.According to her US measuring spoons are smaller than UK ones.3 British tablespoons of flour weigh 1oz; 4 US tablespoons of flour weigh 1oz.The 'average modern tablespoon' ( according to the editor in 1963  ) was the equivalent of a British standard measuring spoon.She  says a rounded tablespoon has as much above the level of the spoon as below and that the idea of a heaped spoon is rubbish since peoples idea of a heap varies and that if you want half a spoon you should divide along it's length.I weighed  carefully measured flat  tablespoons  of flour with 2 different measuring spoons, both gave exactly 10g of flour.(metric spoons?)One of the spoons is scoop shaped and I couldn't manage to make a rounded spoon at all.The other is spoon shaped and a rounded spoon came out between 18 and 21g so presumably should be 20g.As the original recipe said a generous tbs of flour I would have put in a rounded (heaped!) tbs  20-25g which is in fact what I use for a similar recipe.**and indeed they were, according to wiki British tablespoons from the Victorian and Edwardian times (no I'm not that old, but the spoons were) held 25ml or more ;a standard tablespoon in the US and UK is now defined as 15ml<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablespoon" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablespoon</a></blockquote>

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