How many oz or gms in a US cup measure

Passport1

Am making a cake from a US Recipe book
The recipe tells me to use 2 cups of flour but doesnt give an indication of how many ounces or grams that would be

Does anybody know when a US receipe referenced using cups of flour how many oz or grams would that be

Thanks

Faith

The problem is that different ingredients have different weights. So a cup of flour is not the same weights as a cup of, say, oats. Google reckons a cup of flour = 110g. You can buy sets of standardised cups in many places that will make baking American recipes much easier.

Boardnashea

It depends what you're putting in the cup. A cup of butter will be heavier than a cup of flour.

Honey-ec

A cup is a volume measurement rather than a weight one, so as others have said, you can't really standardise it. If you're really stuck, use a teacup or something similar - your quantities might be different to using an actual US cup, but the proportions will still be right, which is the important thing.

I bought a set of US measuring cups a few years back and use them ALL the time. Well worth getting, if you do a lot of cooking or baking from US sites.

Brian?

We got a set in Arnotts cheap enough. Well worth owning.

sponge_bob

Faith wrote: »

The problem is that different ingredients have different weights. So a cup of flour is not the same weights as a cup of, say, oats. Google reckons a cup of flour = 110g. You can buy sets of standardised cups in many places that will make baking American recipes much easier.

using what google recomends find a cup in your press that when filled contains 110g of flour, this cup should then be the right size. if you want to double check measure out 237ml of liquid and that should also fill the cup.

then just use that cup for your measurements.
thats how i solved it:)

rubadub

As above a US cup is 237ml, they vary in other countries by the way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_%28unit%29

You could make your own cup too. 1ml of cold water is approx 1gram, so if you have a good scales you can a empty 500ml plastic water bottle, put it on the scale, zero it and fill with water until it reads 237grams/ml, now draw a line the bottle with a marker or scratch it and cut the top off, or cut it around at exactly that level.

Kat1170

Heaton’s have a cheap set of cup measures in their kitchen section, as have many € bargain shops.

Passport1

Thanks for all the replies
Got them in Heatons
Thanks again

MaudL

Agree with all of the above.
On a side note, I find the site onlineconversion.com very useful

Saoirse333

I got great measuring cups and spoons (all one pack) for €1.49 in Woodies!

Very handy, particularly the spoons for measuring stuff like vanilla essence etc.

dubgal101

you can also buy a set of cups and spoons in the 2euro shop, which is pretty handy because those shops are springing up everywhere.