I, too get confused over conversions of weights from cups to grams.
Did you know that a cup of flour is not the same as a cup of butter? Well some of the US recipes are in cups and our cakes/bakes go wrong because sometimes we think we measure them as a cup of dry ingredient = to a cup of liquid ingredient.
In US, a stick of butter is 113g in weight, and a cup of butter is not the same is a stick of butter.
If you come across a US recipe that calls for measurement in cups, use this information below as a general rule for some common ingredients. I hope it helps you. Then again, after baking them once, we can always fine tune it to your own taste and reweigh them in grams as your family recipe. I prefer to use metric recipes.. sometimes I boycott the recipes that comes in cups.. sigh
Granulated sugar: 1 cup = 200 grams
Brown sugar: 1 cup, packed = 220 grams
Sifted white flour: 1 cup = 125 grams
White rice, uncooked: 1 cup = 185 grams
White rice, cooked: 1 cup = 175 grams
Butter: 1 cup = 227 grams
Almonds, slivered: 1 cup = 108 grams
Oil: 1 cup = 224 grams
Maple syrup: 1 cup = 322 grams
Milk, non-fat: 1 cup = 245 grams
Milk, sweetened condensed: 306 grams
Broccoli, flowerets: 1 cup = 71 grams
Raisins: 1 cup, packed = 165 grams
Milk, dry: 1 cup = 68 grams
Yogurt: 1 cup = 245 grams
Water: 1 cup = 236 grams
Confectioners sugar: 1 C = 110 g
Cocoa: 1 C = 125 g
Monday, May 18, 2009
Conversions In Baking
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6 comments:
Thanks so much for this conversion chart!!
I have always taken 1 cup to mean 250gm and 1 stick of butter to be 125gm. I know I cup of sugar is not = to 1 cup of flour due to different density, but sometimes dont know how to convert so just agak agak, so I would like to believe that soemtimes when my cakes dont come out well,its not me but the recipe!! :D
hahaha yes! it's true... i'm actually boycotting the recipes that's in cups/sticks! T_____T
It is always very confusing on the conversion of the value. Different place have different measurement standard.
Like Mei-Wah, I also shy away from the recipe with cup measurement!
Now that you have done us "baker queens" such a great favour - there is no reason for us to avoid recipe with cups again!
Thank you.
sahm - you're welcome. yeah sometimes i also go by 'agaration', but at least if you get a good basis of it first, then it should give us a rough idea.
mei wah - agree. i also heard that in Europe, some take it that one stick of butter is 250g... but butters do come in 125 grammage too.. sometimes really confusing.
superman - ya different countries adopt diff measures.. europe still use pounds too.. and my mom's old recipe book has old measurements too.. some like Kati and Chupak!
Yan - yes, i sure hope this conversion of some of these basic cooking ingredients helps us especially some recipes that look really good. Some good recipe books I have are in US measurements.
Yes, I too have a german recipe site and I also get loads of requests from the USA re converting into cups. I think for baking this is difficult and I sometimes advise people to buy a cheap pair of scales.
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