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American cup measurements?
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I didn't even know we had English cups ... so no doubt they're English. Soz for being a dunce. Again.
However, I've used them in my US recipes and they seemed fine ... maybe it's that old assumption that so long as you use the same measurements for all of the ingredients (rather than grams for some things, ounces for others, and, well, cups for the rest) it'll work out ok in the end.
EDIT: I do admit to becoming slightly flummoxed when they mention "sticks" of butter, though.
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I think american packs are marked into either quarters or eights. One such division being known as a stick. I'll google...
Edit: The very first hit on google was This One.
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That sounds like when our old butter packs were marked with lines for ounces or 25g - or do they still?spendy/she/her ***DEBT-FREE DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2022!*** Highest debt: £35k (2006) MY WINS: £3,541 CASH; £149 Specsavers voucher; free eye test; goody bag from Scottish Book Trust; tickets to Grand Designs Live; 2-year access to Feel Amazing App (worth £100); Home Improvement & Renovation Show tickets; £50 to spend on chocolate; Harlem Globetrotters tickets; Jesus Christ Superstar tickets + 2 t-shirts; Guardians of the Galaxy goody bag; Birmingham City v Barnsley FC tickets; Marillion tickets; Dancing on Ice tickets; Barnsley FC v Millwall tickets0
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Some do. I can't remember which one I recently saw with it. BTW - your answer is in the edit above ^^^^ 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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Ta much - again!
But why they have to say "approximately 125g" ... I'll try to remember the 4oz reply ... I'm presuming that ounces weigh the same ... don't they also have bigger pints?spendy/she/her ***DEBT-FREE DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2022!*** Highest debt: £35k (2006) MY WINS: £3,541 CASH; £149 Specsavers voucher; free eye test; goody bag from Scottish Book Trust; tickets to Grand Designs Live; 2-year access to Feel Amazing App (worth £100); Home Improvement & Renovation Show tickets; £50 to spend on chocolate; Harlem Globetrotters tickets; Jesus Christ Superstar tickets + 2 t-shirts; Guardians of the Galaxy goody bag; Birmingham City v Barnsley FC tickets; Marillion tickets; Dancing on Ice tickets; Barnsley FC v Millwall tickets0 -
The thing is that an ounce is 28 and a bit grams. So the usual thing for small measures is to round off to 25's because it makes the sums easy.
With bigger quantities those missing 3's start adding up so people tend to round off again to another 25...
..4 ounces is closer to 112 grams - so rounded up it's approx 125 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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Apparently a US cup is 8fluid ounces and a Brit one is 10 fluid ounces (25% more).
I bake using cups now, I have a couple of cheap plastic jugs with mls/fl oz/cups. For baking I reckon on a cup of flour,oats or icing sugar = 4oz,
cup of caster- granulated sugar = 6-8oz,
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Thanks for all your replies. I made the dip with 'some' yogurt, then tipped in a bit more till it tasted right. Must say I've never made it before, but I've saved half of it for tomorrow's Rogan Josh. p.s. also did homemade (well in the bread machine) naan breads today, yummy.....0
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:T WTG soba!!!
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spendaholic wrote:That sounds like when our old butter packs were marked with lines for ounces or 25g - or do they still?
OMG - thats just whizzed me back to being a little girl helping my Nan make pastry. Aaahhhhhh, thems were the days (and I'm not even OLD - lol )
We made some raspberry muffins the other day and the recipe was a cup so I googled it and it said 8oz.
The muffins were yukky so we blamed the google search for giving us the wrong measurements :rotfl:Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold...But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow...0
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