But it gets even more confusing when some recipes use the metric system of liters and milliliters instead of our standard U.S. Imperial measurement system of teaspoons, tablespoons, and cups.

The United States primarily uses the US Customary System, where volume is measured in cups, tablespoons (tbsp), and teaspoons. Meanwhile, much of the world follows the Metric System with ...

In the meantime, a new system of weights and measures, developed by French scientists following the Revolution of 1789, gained increasing international use. This metric system had as its fundamental ...