FRENCH kitchen measurements can sometimes be confusing to people used to UK ones.

A cuillère à soupe is a British tablespoon (15ml).

What Britons call a soupspoon - a rounded version of a dessertspoon (10ml) - is a cuillère a dessert (but these are uncommon as French people often use teaspoons for dessert instead).

Cuillère à café refers to a 5ml teaspoon - “à thé” is rarely used.