American cup measurements?

demented_2

Hi, I agree with you, recipes that quote cups instead of ounces or grams are a pain in the ***. I have now bought a set of cups, just in case, The measurements on the cups state.
1 cup= 8 0z or 240mls
1/2 cup= 4 0z or 120 ml
1/3 cup= 2.7 oz or 80ml
1/4 cup= 2 0z or 60 ml
I did try to do a link with a site that had a conversion chart on it, but came up with a site that had nothing whatsoever to do with cooking or cups of the cooking variety, sad arn't i. Oh well never mind, i will just have to try again.
Hope that this post is of some help to you.

earthmother

Could I please double check - do you level the cup for any ingredient, or are there some you would pile/round.

I have a crispie cake recipe that calls for cups of rice crispies and icing sugar - but then fat by weight and cocoa by tablespoons - very confusing

I know crispie cakes aren't an exact science, but these are for gifts, and I don't have many spare ingredients.

Bongedone

You level the cup off. That is what they do on the American food programs.

thriftlady_2

Bongedone wrote: »

You level the cup off. That is what they do on the American food programs.

Yep, you do;)

Sometimes recipes call for a 'packed cup' of something -brown sugar usually- where you nedd to press as much as possible in and then level off.

earthmother

Thank you both - did as you said and it appears to have worked - they taste nice, just got to wait and see if they set.

continualdiamond

Just come to make some muffins and realised my cup measurement i no longer have as i sold my bread maker.

How else i can i measure it? ie with some scales etc, how much am i looking at?

Thanks

thriftlady_2

Do you have a measuring jug marked in fl oz ?

If so a cup is 8 fl oz -just tip in ingredients to that mark. Bang it on a table to level out.

You can't convert a cup measure directly into weight as a cup of sugar doesn't weight the same as a cup of flour for example.

As a rough guide a cup of flour is about 4.5 oz, but I can't remember other ingredients.

continualdiamond

Thank you, thank you. Yes i have a measuring jug, so you have solved my problem.

Fen1

hope these help

http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/convert/measurements.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_weights_and_measures

Waitrose magazine has a conversion chart every month

sarahsarah

Hiya, I have promised my daughter we will make fairy cakes this afternoon, I just started weighing out the ingredients but my scales have gone all dodgy. I put a 500g bag of flour on to test them and it weighed in at 200g :-)

So anyway, I have proper measuring cups - does anyone have a 2 egg sponge recipe? I usually use the bero one....

If I was more experienced I would try it by eye but I daren't risk it!