American cookery terms

suep

I've only had my slow cooker for a couple of weeks and although there are loads of recipes on the mega thread for meat eaters, theres only a few for vegetarians so I thought I'd buy a book from Amazon, I got it from the new or used bit and it arrived today. The only problem is it's American so uses cup measurements which I don't understand and funny things like eggplant! is this aubergine? and zucchini! think this might be courgettes. Some of the recipes look really nice but as in any book theres a few dodgy looking ones. Does anyone know how to convert cups to pounds and ounces (showing my age here ) or metric.
sue

mrs_mix

If it say's cups it just a general measure you can use a mug if you like but you must use the same mug to keep it the same
egg plant is aubergine
zucchhini is courgette
hth

pam

JoeyEmma

coriander is cilantro in America
One cup is about 280ml in metric.
I find it a nightmare with veg etc working it out in cups

Queenie

suep wrote:

I've only had my slow cooker for a couple of weeks and although there are loads of recipes on the mega thread for meat eaters, theres only a few for vegetarians so I thought I'd buy a book from Amazon, I got it from the new or used bit and it arrived today. The only problem is it's American so uses cup measurements which I don't understand and funny things like eggplant! is this aubergine? and zucchini! think this might be courgettes. Some of the recipes look really nice but as in any book theres a few dodgy looking ones. Does anyone know how to convert cups to pounds and ounces (showing my age here ) or metric.
sue

Funnily enough, I answered the cup/equivalent question in a post here earlier today (scurries off to do a quick copy and paste) ....

Queenie wrote:

American measurements (OS thread)

Conversion Table (OS Thread)

American/British Measurements (OS thread)

Those Crazy Americans (OS thread - long but lots of US to UK terms and other stuff explained )

Good luck with trying all those new recipes in your book

dannahaz

Don't forget that an american PINT is 16 fluid ounces (3/4 of an Imperial pint).

So when they mention "a quart" they mean 2 US pints which is 1.5 UK pints

recovering_spendaholic

If you have Tesco near you they sell American cup measuring sets for £2.99 - I find mine invaluable.

suep

Thanks for the quick response everyone, sorry to repeat an earlier question too, you are all very patient.
sue

halloweenqueen_2

To be honest I use uk cups but just heap them up a little - hasn't affected the recipes at all. However may have anose in tesco - what don't they sell now!

Queenie

Sue - your question wasn't an exact repeat, so you wouldn't have known that from the earlier post's question title. It's our pleasure to help

thriftlady_2

I have a lot of American cookbooks and found this book useful
http://www.amazon.co.uk/American-Cooking-England-Ingredients-Measurements/dp/0953355705/sr=1-2/qid=1161680149/ref=sr_1_2/202-4560088-2422211?ie=UTF8&s=books

It makes life much easier to get a set of American measuring cups, especially for baking