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American cookery terms
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Another tip for future: When a recipe calls for 'flour' and baking powder they mean use 'plain flour' not self raising as it is the baking powder that will give rise to whatever you are baking.
BTW, I am American born living here last 10 years so feel free to ask me to translate american for you all in future :A ..........god knows I've asked people a fair few times what something means/is.....for instance, words like 'mafted', 'bairn', what a 'processed' pea is (what had that poor pea been through that garden peas just don't even know about) etc etc
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For all American translations - try this older thread: American Cookery Terms.
JenniO - thanks for that kind offer :T Maybe you could check the thread for errors and ommisions
Penny. x:rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:0 -
Hi sancho,
I've added your thread to the American Cookery Terms thread to keep all the 'translations' together.
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I've done translations on here, too. If I'd known there was a thread I'd have pointed people at it who didnt believe me!
Baking by cups is so much easier than faffing about with scales. Converting them to weights doesn't work well as it depends on the weather (humidity) as to what something dry weighs. Flour will weigh more in humid weather than in dry as it absorbs moisture from the air.0 -
Just found a recipe for a tomato sauce that I want to try instead of buying Dolmio Stir Ins, but just wondered if a 14.5 oz can of tomatoes, was a half can or a full can?Pink Sproglettes born 2008 and 2010
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14.5 oz is 411g so a full can
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Hiya, I would think that it would be a full can.
You can do online searches on google (or another search engine). I find it really handy as you can convert anything 0 -
Using the net a lot for recipes, a few years ago I spent a fair amount of money buying some american measure cups from I think Lakeland, not cheap. I feel rather stupid now as recently in a magazine under a credit crunch article was a description how to turn a jar into a measuring cup. If this helps someone else not to spend the money on buyi g measures -here goes.
Get an old clean jar and an indelible marker and an elastic band. Fill the jar with 60ml of water. Put the elastic band around the jar just below the top of the water and mark all the way around with marker - this is an official US 1/4 cup. Continue on up in 60 ml increments marking each time. Voila.
It seems so obvious now and I wonder why I didn't think of it at the time - sometimes you just need a bit of laterally thought!0 -
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Any measuring jug that is marked in mils will do the job for you too. Just be aware that an American cup is 240 mil while the European cup is normally 250 mil (which makes things easier because it's a sensible fraction ( ¼ ) of a litre.) This isn't a problem if you use the same cup throughout because it's the proportion of things that matter (such as half fat to flour in pastry) and the difference in over all cake size is negligable unless you're making a seriously huge cake
On the other hand, most kitchen ware sections of larger stores now have sets of plastic cup measures for under two pounds which is a reasonable price and in fact I've got two sets. One for normal use and the other I've broken down. The 1 cup is in my flour bin, the ½ cup is ideal for a portion size of rice - so that sits in my big rice jar, and the 1/3rd cup is purrfect as a measure for my cat Sally's dry food.*
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* Sally is a very small and dainty cat so this cup size may not be enough for your own winter warmer... who is only a winter warmer when she doesn't come home soaking wet in the middle of the night and snuggles up next to you in the bed!! NOT my favourite way of waking up. Honest Hi, I'm a Board Guide on the Old Style and the Consumer Rights boards which means I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly and can move and merge posts there. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an inappropriate or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. It is not part of my role to deal with reportable posts. Any views are mine and are not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.DTFAC: Y.T.D = £5.20 Apr £0.50
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