measurement conversion question

It was the chilli threads that prompted this. I found a recipe for pickled chillies that I rather liked the look of - but it's American and some of the ingredients are measured in cups. Can anyone tell me what a "cup" converts to in English? (If the whole recipe had been expressed in cups I could work in proportions, but it's a mixture of pints, tablespoons, teaspoons ...) Help please?

BethinPA

I've found this to be helpful:

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

otatop

Thanks for your response, but (1) - I'm a bit stupid, and (2) I've had a couple of ginandtonics. I can't find a conversion for cups.

sean

An American cup is 8 fluid ounces. A proper British cup is 10 fluid ounces.

Barefoot Andrew

sean wrote:

proper

Impartial advice there Laughing

sean

Of course.

sean

And US pints are only 16 fluid ounces. Lightweights. Wink

Barefoot Andrew

But they do make proper IPA apparently. Some forgiveness can be accorded.
A.

BethinPA

Probably a vestige of the Prohibition Era.

Since they relaxed legal restrictions on small breweries, we make mind-blowingly-good beer. Had a "Two Heart Ale" from Michigan last night - gorgeously aromatic. Mmmmm.

Also 1 cup = 240 ml.

I think, had I a few G&Ts on board, I wouldn't be able to make sense of mls! Laughing

Erikht

What about flour? I have a cookbook which insist that 1 cup of dry liquid is 250 ml (probably rounding up from 240), 1 cup of dry goods 250 grams, but one cup of flour 4 oz, or 120 grams. This is all very confusing.

BethinPA

Okay, here's an even better one, because you get to specify what you're measuring (i.e. butter, flour, water, nuts):

http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/cooking

It's confusing, because you measure some things by volume, some things by weight. (a cup of butter weighs more than a cup of flour, but a cup is a cup is a cup, and it's all about volume)

Erikht

Okay, so 1 cup of all purpose flour should be about 250 ml, but only 100 grams, not 250 grams. Okay, got that.

I thought my muffins were a bit hard. Tasted good, but could be fluffier. I do see that doubling the amount of flour but keeping the baking powder would do that.

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