1932 Penn RR Dining Car Cooking Instructions

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Thanks Anne. Your post made me check something out. I measured 37ml of water and first  put it in the serving spoon I have and found that spoon to only hold one tablespoon, or 15ml. I then grabbed the 2 kitchenspoons I have. One a silicone type and another plastic one, both purchased off a grocery store peg within the last 10 years. These would both be "...the size of a slotted spoon without the slots," and both, within a ml or 2, held 37mL, just as Brook said they would. 

I'm convinced that a kitchenspoon as referenced in the Penn RR cookbook is 2 1/2 tablespoons, or 37.5ml. 

My apologies to gman for calling his venerable kitchenspoon a serving spoon. It was difficult for me to tell the actual size of the spoon pictured.

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Rod Franklin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Chef Joined: 17 February 2010 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 921	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rod Franklin Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 September 2013 at 05:17
	Thanks Anne. Your post made me check something out. I measured 37ml of water and first put it in the serving spoon I have and found that spoon to only hold one tablespoon, or 15ml. I then grabbed the 2 kitchenspoons I have. One a silicone type and another plastic one, both purchased off a grocery store peg within the last 10 years. These would both be "...the size of a slotted spoon without the slots," and both, within a ml or 2, held 37mL, just as Brook said they would. I'm convinced that a kitchenspoon as referenced in the Penn RR cookbook is 2 1/2 tablespoons, or 37.5ml. My apologies to gman for calling his venerable kitchenspoon a serving spoon. It was difficult for me to tell the actual size of the spoon pictured.
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HistoricFoodie Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 21 February 2012 Location: Kentucky Status: Offline Points: 4945	Post Options Post Reply Quote HistoricFoodie Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 September 2013 at 05:45
	Interestingly, I've been watching reruns of the British version of Professional Master Chefs. I had noted that all the chef-competitors used what I'd been thinking of as a soup-spoon in their cookery. Didn't make the connection until now. Mentally comparing, the spoons they are using are the same size as the one Anne identifies as a kitchenspoon. Click!