22-10-2016, 10:03 AM
(21-10-2016, 05:23 PM)Mike Watterson Wrote: USA has a baking cup, a coffee cup and some other cup, none of which match the UK baking cup measure.
So long as you use the same measure for all the ingredients, the only thing which will vary is the final size.
As far as I know, only one cup size is used for recipes in the US, and the measures are widely available.
My wife first encountered the concept of measuring in cups when she bought an American book of bread making recipes. She thinks its a wonderful idea as it does away with all the complications of UK recipes. Everything is measured in cups (and fractions thereof, for which there are also measures available) rather than chopping and changing between, say, grammes or ounces for flour, fluid ounces of water, teaspoons of yeast and so on.
Not that I know much about it (!) but following a UK recipe must be like building a box which is 1½ yards long by 75 cm wide by 1 foot 9⅝ inches deep ...
