What the heck does fz mean?

[tinkamom]

Hopefully someone could help me figure it out! fluid oz? It's in a cheescake factory recipe I'm making for dinner.

Spicy Cashew Chicken
Serves: One Portion
2 fz. Peanut Oil
6 oz. Chicken Breast, cut into 1" to 2" pieces
3 Tbls. Seasoned Rice Flour*
4 fz. Rice Flour Batter*
5 fz. Spicy Soy-Sherry Sauce*
2 oz. Cashews, roasted and unsalted**
1 oz. Green Onions, chopped into 1/4" pieces
1/2 tsp. White Sesame Seeds, toasted**
1/2 tsp. Fresh Parsley, finely chopped

 

[AKL_Megs]

It's fluid ounce... but why/how would you have a FLUID ounce of rice flower batter... not a fluid, right?

 

[Lintasare]

I would say fluid ounce as well. A batter is a liquid or semi a liquid right?

 

[tinkamom]

Fluid oz is the only thing I can come up with too. So I'm going with it. Hopefully It'll come out right, I'm starving!

 

[Illuminations_Rocks]

Google is my friend.

FZ is the abbreviation for imperial fluid ounce, which according to wikipedia, differs slightly from FO (fluid ounce).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_ounce

The Imperial ounce and the US customary ounce differ slightly.

An imperial ounce of water weighs 1 dry ounce, because in 1824 The British Parliament redefined one gallon to be equal to the volume of 10 pounds of water. Thus a quart is 2.5 pounds or 40 dry ounces, a pint is 1.25 pounds or 20 dry ounces. Because of this the fluid ounce was redefined as being equal to the volume of one dry ounce of water, or 1/20th of a pint. The UK system can more easily co exist with the metric system in which a gram is defined as being equal to the mass of one cubic centimeter of water.

The US ounce is based on the earlier definition of one gallon equaling 231 cubic inches. This measurement at first glance does not seem to have any tie to mass, however it is believed[who?] to have somehow come from a previous measure of a gallon as being 224 cubic inches (just 7 cubic inches less, both numbers being multiples of 7) which was used because it was the volume of 8 pounds of wine.

But I'm sure you're fine just using a regular old US fluid ounce!