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posted by [personal profile] commoncomitatus at 05:20pm on 31/01/2009
I always go "bzuh?" when I see measurements in 'cups'. I mean, a teaspoon is a teaspoon, but dammit cups come in like a thousand different sizes! For the cookery illiterate among us... namely, y'know, me... what the hell kinda cup are we talking about, here?

*refuses to make obligatory bra-related wisecracks*
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posted by [identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com at 05:54pm on 31/01/2009
OK, for technical definition, look at this:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(volume)#United_States

I have a set of measuring cups like this:-
http://tinyurl.com/czxnpm

But just for you, here are the metric measurements :)

* 125 g all-purpose flour
* 10 g white sugar
* 3 g baking powder
* 2 g baking soda
* 2 g salt
* 235 ml milk
* 1 egg
* 30 ml vegetable oil

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posted by [personal profile] commoncomitatus at 06:01pm on 31/01/2009
*headdesk*

This is why I shouldn't be allowed to sleep during the day. On reading that recipe (which, thank you for metricising!!), and gettig as far down as "1 egg", I was literally THIS close to typing "wait... was that 1g egg, or 1ml egg?"

But yes. Thank you!! And this is why I don't cook. ;)
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posted by [identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com at 06:03pm on 31/01/2009
I don't cook either but this recipe is Mitchy-proof, so you should give it a try. And then midnight chocolate pancakes could be yours! :D
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posted by [identity profile] cafiorello.livejournal.com at 11:08pm on 31/01/2009
Yeah, a cup is a little less than 1/4 liter, so 235 ml I can buy. But how the hell (and why) do you measure dry ingredients by weight instead of volume?

Cathy
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posted by [identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com at 11:22pm on 31/01/2009
Well I usually weigh stuff but I don't have scales. I have no idea why Americans seem to prefer the cup measurements, I was hoping you could tell me! There are lots of problems with volume measuring, as many things have a different density so 1 cup of one thing might actually be less than 1 cup of another.
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posted by [identity profile] cafiorello.livejournal.com at 03:10pm on 01/02/2009
Well, cups are easier and cheaper than scales, I guess?

They will give us different volumes for different things--like they will tell you how much to use if you have cake flour versus regular flour, or specify if you are supposed to sift before measuring or whatever.

Cathy
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