Quick post today peeps as I haven't had time to bake yet. Enjoyed a great day at the Irish Food Bloggers event in Bord Bia organised in conjunction with Donal Skehan. Will write some more about that next week. Will also post at least one yummy recipe over the weekend so keep your peepers peeled.
For now I am going to share some knowledge that I forgot I had. I often stumble upon some yummy recipes and think, oooo I can't wait to make that, and then when I read through the recipe I see it is American and I get a bit confused about the conversion of cups to grams or ounces. A couple of years ago I was flicking through my latest copy of Ideal Home magazine and they had conveniently printed a conversion table for this situation. I snipped it out and stuck it into the back of my pretty little recipe journal and then forgot all about it until the other night when I was having a little looksie in said journal. So here it is, which means you have no excuse now if you want to bake a stateside recipe. Print this post if you like and stick it somewhere so that you always have it to hand when you just HAVE to bake that chocolate cake or peach cobbler. Enjoy.
AMERICAN IMPERIAL METRIC
1 cup flour 5oz 150g
1 cup caster and granulated sugar 8oz 225g
1 cup brown sugar 6oz 175g
1 cup butter/margarine/lard 8oz 225g
1 cup sultanas/raisins 7oz 200g
1 cup currants 5oz 150g
1 cup ground almonds 4oz 110g
1 cup golden syrup 12oz 350g
1 cup uncooked rice 7oz 200g
1 cup grated cheese 4oz 110g
1 stick butter 4oz 110g
Sorry, had issues inserting a table. Will try again or take a pic of the original to insert instead. The info is all here though so that's more important than aesthetics now isn't it.
Thanks so much for this- I'll immortalise your blog post in my dog- eared, food splattered recipe journal!!!
ReplyDeleteYay, does that make me a published author hehehe? Glad this is helpful to you, thought that there might be more than just me put off recipes for this reason. I can start to work my way through my stash of Martha Stewart and PW Tasty Kitchen recipes now. : )
ReplyDeleteExcellente! Nothing worse than being in a supermarket looking at the weight of an ingredient and trying to figure out if it will fit into a cup/half-cup ...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, how rude of me. Let me introduce myself as a fellow chocoholic who lives and types in chocolate :-)
Hi! This is a great idea! Before I got cup measures I used to waste a load of time looking for a table like this in my cookbooks!
ReplyDeleteHello somesaycocoa,
ReplyDeleteNice to know there is another chocoholic knocking about the place. Lots of chocolate recipes on my to do list so cannot wait to get around to them. No more loitering in supermarket aisles for you now.
Hi Lilly,
ReplyDeleteNone of my cookbooks have a conversion table in them so was really delighted when I spotted this. Measuring cups are a Godsend but I am always bamboozled by the stick of butter measurement. So glad to have rediscovered this now as I can get cracking on lots of cast aside recipes. Thanks again for the delicious cookies you brought to the food bloggers event. I was so sad I hadn't nabbed a few when I finished my one, will have to rustle up a batch to enjoy again.