Susie's Kitchen
This valuable resource will explain to even the most inexperienced people how to read and understand recipes. So plainly have we unlocked these age old mysteries that even men can now learn to decipher the language of the kitchen. Are you baffled by T. and t.? Did you even realize they were different? This section is for you.
Several thousand years ago an ancient guild of grandmothers, into whose charge was placed the keeping of the sacred knowledge of preparing meals, made a joint decision to write their secrets down. However, fearing that their secrets would fall into the wrong hands, they determined to make them decipherable only to the initiated. Thus, recipes and abbreviations were born.
Over the years, the abbreviations have evolved as each subsequent generation attempts to innovate on the past. Eventually, two general parties could be identified: The conservatives, who by the way, were opposed to writing them down in the first place, decided that maintaining the great secrets should be their primary goal, and derived abbreviations like T, C, and t. The liberals, desiring as many as possible to receive the benefits of their work, determined to use abbreviations such as tbsp., tsp., qt., and even made use of some english words such as cup. The conservatives felt so strongly against such a system, that they devised the abbreviation lb. for use in trade of bulk quantities of baking ingredients, in an effort to defer all others from being able to participate in trade.