Hi, Dallas!  Recently you wrote in a message to Denis Mosko:

DH>  tsp is the customary abbreviation for "teaspoon",


          With or without the period, yes.



DH>  and in the same way, tbs (sometimes tbp) is the
DH>  abbreviation for "tablespoon".


          The one I see most often is "tbsp(.)", but some people evidently like
to use the same number of letters in both... and I gather from the articles you
found that in the UK various other abbreviations may also be used.

          A further complication is that in older British recipes & possibly in
Australian recipes one tbsp. = four tsp.  When we were in high school, a friend
told me her mother... who had grown up in the UK... didn't realize Canadians do
things differently until a cooking attempt failed to turn out as expected.  :-Q




--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+