Recipes for Young Adults

Alberta Sugar Company - 1981

Canada converted to the metric system with an amendment to the Weights and Measures Act and the new Packaging and Labelling Act in 1971. The provinces cooperated to integrate metric units into the school system (Ganapathy). This revision of Recipes for Young Adults, produced by the Alberta Sugar Company for use in home economics classrooms, is part of that process. The marginalia, however, demonstrates Canadians’ frustration and stubbornness in adapting to the new measurements, and many Canadians continued to convert back to the old imperial system. Cooking, practiced at home with old equipment and recipes, is slow to adapt to new systems. The Metric Commission, set up to facilitate conversion to metric, was abolished in 1985 (“Population Affiliation Report”), and today most Canadian cookbooks use a hybrid of imperial and metric.

With permission from Lantic Inc.