Two level 2 tbsp.

11:37 Jan 30, 2020 

Totally agree with you - and I have been cooking for nearly 65 years ! I too have always taken recipes with a pinch of salt... but how much is a "pinch of salt"...???

11:06 Jan 30, 2020 

In GB, a 'tablespoon' is always 15 ml — this is because we also have the 'dessertspoon' for 10 ml
In FR, sadly, there is a great deal of inconsistency in the way these measurements are used — and if you measure an actual typical 'cuillère à soupe' here in France, more often than not, it comes out at around 10 ml. For liquid measures, this could be quite important (though of course, those are by definition 'level'!); in this instance, with a dry ingredient, it would actually be quite difficult to make it turly level (which is only really possible with finely granular substances like flour or sugar).
To avoid the problem here, I think I'd simply translate as '2 càs', leaving out any mention of 'level' — in this case, they are likely to be slightly rounded, and the overall quantity about right — in any case, this wouldn't seem to be recipe-critical, and the quantity even seems a bit on the low side to begin with.

10:55 Jan 30, 2020 

I note that the reference you give is from Quebec, not France. They get some things wrong, e.g. they say that a pint is 450 ml. In fact, a US pint is 473 ml and a UK pint is 568 ml.

According to Wikipedia: " a United States tablespoon is approximately 14.8 ml (0.50 US fl oz), a United Kingdom and Canadian tablespoon is exactly 15 ml (0.51 US fl oz), and an Australian tablespoon is 20 ml (0.68 US fl oz)."

A cup is 250 ml in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, 284.1 ml in the UK, 240 ml for the US FDA and 236.59 in the US generally.

Personally, I prefer my recipes to give measurements in metric units, not in cups and tablespoons. I've never worked out how big an onion is in recipes that tell you how many onions to use, but I take all my recipes with a pinch of salt.

10:36 Jan 30, 2020 

Après avoir fait quelques recherches sur internet, il me semble qu'en français une cuillère à soupe contient également 15 ml de liquide. Voir par exemple ce lien (sûrement pas la référence en la matière, mais une source parmi d'autres) : http://www.nikibar.com/tremplin-idees/trucs-cuisine/dosages....

Mais il vaut mieux pour l'auteur de s'en assurer en faisant ses propres recherches ; on n'est jamais trop prudent.

10:24 Jan 30, 2020 

Given Tony's comment below that a cuillère à soupe is 10 ml, while a tablespoon is 15 ml, shouldn't this be trois cuillères à soupe rases ?