Weights and Measures

[faustus]

I'm having fun with recipes. Some of my recipes are in British, and some in America, and some in metric and some in imperial, and some in combinations of those permutations. A lot of what I'm cooking from right now is in US cups - which makes sense for flour and sugar, but less so for butter.

And of course US cup is 8 fl oz and UK is 5 fl oz.

Now I see that US and UK fl oz are not the same; 29.57353 ml and 28.41307ml repectively.

Can anyone point me to a website that will tell me how much 8 fl oz of flour, sugar and especially butter would weigh, either in oz or g? Or know this kind of thing off the top of their heads?

I think this might be the sort of thing I'm after - but the weights and measures rather than the ingredient side:

Comments

Re: Is this any use?

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure I'm using the same sort of flour after all these years. I just used to be able to do cakes and pastry, but can't now. Still, I've not tried as much in this gas oven, and the flat cake was in a fan assisted electric. I'm not at all convinced about its temperatures. (Especially given the amount of time we cooked chicken legs in there which still ran bloody juices)

I think I've nailed scones, by adapting the gluten free recipe and reducing the liquid (or calling them drop scones if I forget).