cooking in cup measurements

sunrise27_2

trying to be good and doing a lot more cooking
but keep finding recipies I like on American blogs but they measure in cups
what is this in English ??? any ideas ??

v8monkeyboy

Hi,

Once cup is usually 250ml. You can buy cup measures if you want to, but a cup is a cup is a cup. If you use, say, a tea cup for your recipe, then make sure that you use the same tea cup for the rest of the recipe. So if it's half a cup, you measure half of that tea cup etc etc.

HTH,

T xx

tanith

Try this , you have to scroll down a bit for cups http://www.deliaonline.com/home/conversion-tables.html

Owl

You can buy a set of measuring cups in Mr A for about £1 (actually I think I found them in Poundland too......)

LondonDreamer

Just wanted to comment about the point "a cup is a cup" above - while this is true and works fine for recipes that are purely cup measure, it can throw things out a bit of you're combining it with other measurements (e.g. teaspoons) if your cup is drastically different from 250ml in capacity. It can also be hard to get accurate partial measurements depending on the shape of your cup. I already had a set from living abroad but I've seen cup measures in supermarkets and IMO, they're worth the investment if you read a lot of American recipes.

Because it's a volume measure, the conversion is going to be different for every ingredient. What I do is make it once with cup measures with the bowl on top of a scale. I note down the metric conversion, then use that the next time. Purely because it's less washing up to weigh everything straight into the bowl than use cups.

zippychick

our cup measures thread should help. I bought a very cheap set off ebay for about £4, invaluable:j

ill merge this later on for you
Zip