I've got the measure of you

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.