what is a cup, recipe measurement wise?
By shelagh77
@shelagh77 (3643)
14 responses
@shelagh77 (3643)
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31 Jan 07
Wow! Very comprehensive and thank you so much!!!!! I have made a note of this!
@mrscinxav (118)
• United States
31 Jan 07
as far as i know consider the the cupnoodles size.i usually take it as 200 ml
@shelagh77 (3643)
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31 Jan 07
Thank you for that, I have a split decision now as to whether it is 200 or 250 mls but I am a LOT wiser than I was to start with and much closer to making an edible meal with my recipe :-)
@shelagh77 (3643)
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31 Jan 07
ha ha ha, I love that! Blame someone else! Wow, we women have to stick together lol. Seriously thank you very much for the information, I really did need it. And having someone to blame if it is wrong . . . just too good to be true lololol
@shelagh77 (3643)
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31 Jan 07
yes, yes, you were right, but aren't you pleased I checked and didn't just experiment on you first to see if I had it right? lololol
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@shelagh77 (3643)
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31 Jan 07
Thank you, I am getting a few people with this great information, and you may be surprised that I do not know even though I am a very keen cook, but in the UK not many people use cup measures.
@shelagh77 (3643)
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1 Feb 07
Thank you :-) I really enjoy cooking and to a certain extent one can guess quantities, butit is nice to actually measure them properly :-)
@shelagh77 (3643)
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31 Jan 07
If you read the rest of these there are more measurements and they are helpful. So are you! Thank you so much. You are lucky though, you live too far away for me to experiment on you with my recipes lolol
@shelagh77 (3643)
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3 Feb 07
If the recipe is that complicated I am not surprised people have second thoughts lol. I am usually OK when I follow a recipe and it is almost always edible, but everyone has little blips lol. Then it is a case of "let's hope the dog likes it" lolol
@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
31 Jan 07
1 cup is also 8 oz or 250 mL if I'm not mistaken...
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@shelagh77 (3643)
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31 Jan 07
At last!!! Helpful information. Thank you thank you. I will enjoy making the recipes now.
@shelagh77 (3643)
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1 Feb 07
no no a thousand times no! Do you know how mischievious gabs is? She is good to you with your money but with me she would play a trick. She would not poison me but she would definitely play a game :-)
She is moving very close to my home now, so I have to be very very careful or she will be cling filming over my doors and windows - if you do not understand that ask gabs and she will make you laugh.
Anyways thank you very much for the advice, and I am going to have a try at making the key lime pie recipe which is somewhere here on mylot :-)
@greengal (4286)
• United States
2 Feb 07
I can understand your dilemma because I had the same problem when I came here. I found this on food network and I have a print of it stuck on one of my cabinet doors. Hope it helps you too:)
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/ck_cg_weights_measures/0,1971,FOOD_16097,00.html
@shelagh77 (3643)
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4 Jul 07
Great! sorry I took so long to get back to you, things have been hectic and somehow this one slipped. It is very useful and i thank you!
I am happily cooking still, and my latest success if a sort of cake with anything I have left over in it lol.
@shelagh77 (3643)
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1 Feb 07
Thank you :-) I often cook too, but the cup measurement system was one I avoided as I didn't know what volume this was and I wondered how good the dish would taste if I got it wrong :-)
@shelagh77 (3643)
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31 Jan 07
But WHICH cup???? egg cup, tea cup, coffee cup, macdonalds cup?????????
@desertlady (9)
• United States
1 Feb 07
An American cup measurement in a recipe refers to 8 oz. Hope this helps. I am lost when measurements are mentioned in the metric system.
