American cup measurements?

thriftlady_2

I find cups very easy to use, but I have to admit I only use them to measure when I'm following US recipes. If the recipe is British and therefore measured in weight rather than volume then I weigh.

By the way, it isn't strictly accurate to say a packet of butter weighs 8 oz. It used to before our strange metrication system but 250 g is not 8 oz. 227 g is 8 oz (give or take).

I say 'strange metrication system' because depite the fact butter and dry goods are sold in rounded metric measurments - 250g, 500g, 1.5 kg etc, milk and cream continues to be sold in pints, half pints and quarter pints

CaramelKoala

josey1964 wrote: »

Dont forget that Australian cups are different to US cups, just to confuse the situation a bit more.

An Australian cup is 250mls which seems to be the same as European. However, a tablespoon in Aus is 20mls, whereas European is 15mls.

I can remember reading something that said that you should never measure flour by volume because of the variation depending on how tightly packed it is within the cup ( a bit like the air pockets someone mentioned for butter). I have come across some Australian recipes that specify tightly or loosly packed for ingredients like sugar.

Personally, I prefer to weigh when ever possible.

Rossy2692

Good Morning all,

I am making my daughter some chocolate bread in the bm and the recipe states 1 and 1/8th of a cup of flour, I have the american cup sizes but no 1/8th, could someone give me an idea of how much volume this actually is???

Thanks in advance.

Chala x

Pink.

My breadmaker cup has 1/8 cup measurement on it.....I've just weighed it out and 1/8 cup = 1 oz.

Pink

Rossy2692

Thanks so much!! Have noted that for future reference!

Chala x

cuddlymarm

Hi

Does anyone know what weight a cup is? I've been looking at the hillbilly housewife recipes but have just realised i don't know how much a cup of flour is?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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thriftlady_2

A cup measure is 8 fl oz.

You can make your own measuring cup with an old (big) yogurt pot. Measure 8 fl oz in a measuring jug, pour it into the yogurt pot. Mark where the water comes and cut round

lolarentt

cuddlymarm wrote: »

Hi

Does anyone know what weight a cup is? I've been looking at the hillbilly housewife recipes but have just realised i don't know how much a cup of flour is?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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250 ml - unfortunately it then gets even more confusing as the Americans use volume measure for things like flour which we would normally measure by weight

Swan_2

it's minefield this volume/weighing thing, as it the wieght in a cup can vary according to what kind of flour it is & how fine/coarse it is :rolleyes:

but if you want to weigh, you can make approximations, here's DEILA'S CONVERSION TABLE

lolarentt

Swan wrote: »

but if you want to weigh, you can make approximations, here's DEILA'S CONVERSION TABLE

Thanks for that - very useful!