Baking in the metric world 

This is Diane again.  Many things have happened that I have wanted to write about, but it's been hard to find time.  Last Saturday, our pastor's wife's cousin came over.  She was born in Romania, then lived in the U.S. for several years, and is now living in Oradea where we are.  She brought her daughter, too, who is Joshua's age.  She and I went to the grocery store, and she helped me pick out flour, salt, cinnamon, and baking soda and powder.  It was a tremendous blessing to have her help.  A few days later I was ready to make something.  I decided to try biscuits.  I got a recipe from the Internet and got out the flour.  Then I realized I did not have any measuring cups or spoons.  I actually used a glass to measure the flour.  We have a 1/2 liter glass pitcher, so I guesstimated how much 1/2 of a cup of milk was.  I used butter instead of shortening, and I eyeballed that amount because the butter here isn't in convenient 1/2 cup sticks.  The baking powder comes in a 10g packet. I used all of it, then measured the salt in my hands.  The biscuits actually turned out well, but we decided we should find something for measuring.  We found a wet/dry measuring cup and then a larger mixing bowl with measuring lines.  I set about to make scones, well, duh, the measurements on the cup were in the metric system, and my recipes were in standard system.  I looked the conversions up on the Internet.  The scones were still good, though.  My next task was making banana bread.  This was the first recipe that called for the baking soda I had bought here.  I put it in the bowl, but realized that it smelled like ammonia, and yes, the word on the packet looked like ammonia, but it said it was for cooking.  I scooped it out, though, and added more of the baking powder.  When Sam was available, I had him smell the packet, then he looked it up on the Internet, and it would have been fine.  He used the ammonia baking soda for our Saturday morning pancakes, and we are still alive.  The point of this post is if you like to bake, bring measuring cups to whatever country you might be living in, and it's safe to use the ammonia baking soda.

I'm sorry I didn't take any pictures of the food😔, maybe next time.