American cup measurements?

zippychick

ive merged this with our cup measures thread , carrot cake thread may also be useful

Outdoorlass

Hi

I have noticed a lot of recipes on here say 1 cup or 2 cups, and I haven't a clue what this means is grams or ounces, I have googled but get different answers? Is there a way of working this out, or can you buy a cup, if so from where please?

Thanks:D

esmy

I got a set of plastic measuring cups, different sizes, on a ring, from local Poundland. I use the biggest one for recipes in 'cups'. HTH

Pink.

Hi Outdoorlass,

This thread should help:

Cup Measures?

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

cte1111

I was looking for some cup measures and found some nice ones recently in M&S:
http://www.marksandspencer.com/Marks-and-Spencer-Measuring-Cups/dp/B004GG2STU?ie=UTF8&ref=sr_1_5&nodeId=42966030&sr=1-5&qid=1304709431

They had red ones or a set of pastel ones too. Not as cheap as Poundland but the cheapest ones I've seen

TrashyBook

A cup is a volume measure rather than weight, so 2 cups of flour does not weigh the same as 2 cups of sugar.

In recipes a cup = 250ml.

So if you have a measuring jug you can use that, and fill to the required level. Seems a bit weird using a jug for dry ingredients, but it works fine.

Or if you already have measuring spoons, you could use them.... but might be a bit time consuming to measure out a few cups of sugar using a tablespoon measure!

nikki_angel

I use this site to help me in the kitchen. It converts by commodity.

http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/kitchen/weights.htm

Agapanthus

A cup is half an American pint. A British pint is 20 fl oz, but an American pint is, confusingly, 16 fl oz. (This in turn, even more confusingly, means that an American gallon is different from a British gallon, but since gallons have few applications in domestic cooking let's not go there!)

Anyway, what that all means is that a cup equates to 8 fl oz volume. While that works perfectly well with flour and sugar, the concept of a cup of butter seems bizarre to me. I got myself a set of cup measures - it seemed the easiest way.

alex21

I got my set of red plastic ones in Asda and I think they were about a £.

Outdoorlass

Thanks everyone, I saw some measure cups in Asda today and bought them, still seems strange, using cups, but will give it a go:D