Carrot Bread

loren83

I found this recipe for carrot bread but does anyone have any tried and tested recipes? Also what is cup? http://www.astray.com/recipes/?show=Carrot%20bread%20for%20bread%20machine
I Love the stuff, I can't wait to make some in my BM.

BrandNewDay

What is a cup? Um, 8 oz, I think. You can buy a ring set of measuring cups here quite easily. For dry measuring, you want the kind that come on a ring (in 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 sizes) so that you can just scoop up then level off with the back of a knife.

I don't think you can REALLY convert to metric (grams) because different ingredients have different densities and, therefor, weights.

Norbert_Colon

This 'cup' thing is a nightmare when finding recipes on the internet. I use this conversion table

http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/cooking.htm

myself.

organic_wanabe

Sounds v.tasty. If you try it, please let us know whether it works out well.

BrandNewDay

I didn't know that cups were different! However, I can say that I use measuring cups bought in the UK with good results.

I tend to avoid American recipes, though. Between the ingredients being different (our baking powder is different) and the measurements being tricky to convert, I just avoid the whole hassle.

squeaky

You can get by with an ordinary measuring jug in the meantime.

American recipes work by volume, not by weight, so cups full of different ingredients actually weigh different amounts.

For one cup - measure in your dry goods (level) to the eight ounce / or 250 gram mark.

1/2 cup would be 4oz

1/4 would be 2oz


Then the same for any fluids.

HTH

Crazychik

Hi Loren 83 - if you click on my name I posted a moist carrot cake recipe a bit ago, its a bit like a quick loaf bread, very tasty. Ive been using it for over 15yrs.
HTH !

Sorry but Im no good with adding link's - lol

BrandNewDay

squeaky wrote:

You can get by with an ordinary measuring jug in the meantime.

American recipes work by volume, not by weight, so cups full of different ingredients actually weigh different amounts.

For one cup - measure in your dry goods (level) to the eight ounce / or 250 gram mark.

1/2 cup would be 4oz

1/4 would be 2oz


Then the same for any fluids.

HTH

A caveat about levelling to the 8oz/1 cup mark... if you do this by shaking a liquid measuring cup to get the flour to settle straight, you will end up with more flour as this will compact it. The best thing is to get a ring of measuring cups and then scoop and level with the back of a butter knife.

My husband thinks I'm weird because I insist on using measuring cups and measuring spoons, but maybe I'm just being "Too American."