What does "dsp" means?

[nettle]

In a book I found the following line:
2 level dsp cornflour
how much is this?

 

[kyles]

It's dessert spoon, larger than a teaspoon and smaller than a tablespoon. One source tells me it is two teaspoons, and another that it is 14.5 mils. With a dry prodcut a guesstimate should be fine, if it were a liquid it may be a bit more stressful!

Is it an Australian recipe? We use dessertspoons.

 

[Paint]

'dsp' is 'desert spoon' and it equals 2 teaspoons, or 10mls. I have a set of British measuring spoons, which gives the measurements in both spoonfuls and mls:

for reference:
1 tsp = 5mls
1 dsp = 10mls
1 tblspn = 15mls

Best wishes, Paint.

 

[kyles]

And an Australian dessertspoon is 14.5 mls, just to confuse things! So check the origin of the recipe or book and see if you can ascertain which it is.

 

[nettle]

Thanks a lot, people!
Now I can start cooking!