American cup measurements?

seabright

Most American recipes use cups, not weights. I use quite of lot of US recipes and it does get a bit less weird after a while

Molly41

Please could someone inform me what weights equate to American Cups?
I have downloaded a chart but it seems to be different for liquids and dry food stuffs? I have found some wonderful recipes that I want to try. The MSE bit is that I dont want to have to buy the cups x

misskool

Things weigh differently based on whether they are solid or liquid so your chart is probably right.

A set of cups isn't expensive...

Ballymackeonan

I got my set in TK Maxx - worth a look as they turn up there sometimes - or Ebay?

Kered

it is different for liquids and dry foods and also different foodstuffs seem to have different quantities.

1lb butter = 2 cups
1lb flour = 4 cups
1lb sugar = 2 cups
1lb icing sugar = 3.5 cups
1lb brown sugar = 2 cups
12 oz syrup = 1 cup
14 oz rice = 2 cups
1lb dried fruit = 3 cups
2 oz breadcrumbs = 1 cup
4 oz grated cheese = 1 cup
4 oz chopped nuts = 1 cup

quarter pint water = 2/3 cup
half pint = 1 1/4 cup
1 pint = 2 1/2 cups

Hope that helps

mardatha

Kered that's a great help, ta x

Mrs_Arcanum

If you have a container that has mls -
1/2 cup = 125ml and work from there.

patchwork_cat

I US cup is 240 ml straight off my american cup measures from Lakeland ( technically it is 236.59 ml!). You could measure and cut milk bottles and yoghurt pots to the various measures. NB UK cups are not the same as US cups.

blackandwhitebunny

The pound shop sells sets of very lurid neon coloured cups for £1. Worth a look.

V.Lucky

My pyrex type glass jugs have cup measures on them as well as pints and ml's, might be worthwhile checking yours too.