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Conversion of cups or ounces to grams, by ingredient

2007-05-03T19:06:00.000-04:00

Probably since I'm a bit lazy, I prefer to weigh most ingredients than to measure them with a cup. And for sifted ingredients, that's probably not laziness, but common sense! You just weigh them and then sift them, without the hurdles (and mess) of transfers (and bowls to clean)!

Also, many great cookbooks come from abroad. Or you might have foodie friends from all around the world! Sharing recipes can then be confusing depending on the units used. A good example would be the buns of Rachel, my neighbour. Easter crossed buns, I mean, for which you will have the recipe some day on L'Avenue Monk... Rachel is from New-Zealand, and people from Oceania use different measures in some cases. The spoken accent is not there only difference!

Gradually, I will change my recipes to convert every cups and ounces to grams, but since I'm not finished yet, this table is very handy, and I tought you might find some use to it. I find it's much more useful to have a chart on hand. This way, you don't have to go to the computer, power it on, wait for everything in there to open and then go to your favorite calculator... Just print it! Select the table, then print the selection. How handy?

If you have any information to fill in the blanks, please forward.

Ingredients	USA	Europe		Australia
Ingredients	USA	Metric	Imperial	Metric	Imperial
Flour (sifted)	1 cup	125g	4 ½ oz	140g	5 oz
Granulated and caster sugar	1 cup	170g	6 oz	225g	8 oz
Brown sugar	1 cup	170g	6 oz	170g	6 oz
Icing sugar	1 cup	120g	4 oz	170g	6 oz
Cacao (sifted)	1 cup	80g	3 oz	-	-
Honey, golden syrup), molasses	1 cup	-	-	340g	12 oz
Butter, margarine, lard	1 cup (2 barres)	225g	8 oz	225g	8 oz
Dried fruits	1 cup	140g	5 oz	170g	6 oz
Ground almond	1 cup	100g	3 ½ oz	-	-
Cheese (grated)	1 cup	110g	4 oz	-	-
Nuts (chopped)	1 cup	100g	3 ½ oz	110g	3 oz
Coconut flakes (dehydrated)	1 cup	-	-	85g	3 oz
Breadcrumbs	1 cup	55g	2 oz	140g	5 oz
Cookie crumbs	1 cup	-	-	110g	4 oz
Rice (uncooked)	1 cup	170g	6 oz	200g	7 oz
Tapioca (medium, uncooked)	1 cup	160g	5 ¾ oz	-	-
Barley (uncooked)	1 cup	200g	7 oz	-	-
Quinoa (uncooked)	1 cup	180g	6 ½ oz	-	-
Millet (uncooked)	1 cup	180g	6 ½ oz	-	-

Sources : some datas come from Leiths Cookery Bible

Have a look at L'Avenue Monk for original recipes from a real foodie (like you)!

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Conversion chart : teaspoon, tablespoon, ounce, cups to milliliters

2007-04-20T18:55:00.000-04:00

A teaspoon, while being the quickest method to measure small quantities, is not always the unit with which your (future) favorite recipe is written. It's ease of use probably explains why it's a ubiquitous unit in most american cookbooks, but the internationally oriented foodie always come across ounces or milliliters. This conversion table gives it all : from tablespoon or teaspoon or cups to milliliter (mL), no volume unit will have any secret anymore!

You will note that the English pint is bigger than the American pint... Beer is serious stuff on this side of the Atlantic! Besides, why didn't any Englishmen bring a regular teaspoon to Australia?

American units	Imperial units (UK)	Metric
¼ teaspoon		1 mL
½ teaspoon		3 mL
1 teaspoon		5 mL
½ tablespoon		8 mL
1 tablespoon (3 c à thé)		15mL
The Australian tablespoon is different	1 tablespoon (Australian)	20 mL
¼ cup		65 mL
1/3 cup		85 mL
½ cup		125 mL
2/3 cup		170 mL
¾ cup		190 mL
1 cup		250 mL
1 american pint (16 fluid ounces)	The English pint is different	450 mL
The american pint is different	1 imperial pint	570 mL
~2 1/5 american pint	1 ¾ imperial pint	1000 mL (1 litre)

Quantity	Milliliters	Fluid ounces
1 glass of wine	100	3
1 glass of porto or sherry	70	2
1 glass of liquor	45	1

Convert weight units : grams to ounces and kilograms to pounds

2007-04-17T09:51:00.000-04:00

If you are an internationally-oriented cook and buy cookbooks from many different countries, you probably sometimes find it hard to convert the units presented for many ingredients to your most favourite unites.

Weighing is certainly the easiest and most reliable method to measure solid ingredients, particularly if you bake some buns or cakes or breads.

I hope you will find this chart handy, and more of them will follow. You might know some sites which provides similar information, and even calculators, but nothing is as handy as a chart. And of course a complet one is a must!!! Here is how to convert grams to ounces or pounds to kilograms. And I might be in England for now, but the pound I refer to is the weight unit...

Metric	Imperial	Metric	Imperial
8 g	¼ oz	15 g	½ oz
20 g	¾ oz	30 g	1 oz
55 g	2 oz	85 g	3 oz
110 g	4 oz (¼ pound)	140 g	5 oz
170 g	6 oz	200 g	7 oz
225 g	8 oz (½ pound)	255 g	9 oz
285 g	10 oz	310 g	11 oz
340 g	12 oz (¾ pound)	370 g	13 oz
400 g	14 oz	425 g	15 oz
450 g	16 oz (1 pound)	560 g	1 ¼ pounds
675 g	1 ½ pounds	785 g	1 ¾ pounds
900 g	2 pounds
1 kg	2 pounds 4 oz	1,15 kg	2 pounds 8 oz
1,35 kg	3 pounds	1,8 kg	4 pounds
2,3 kg	5 pounds	2,7 kg	6 pounds
3,2 kg	7 pounds	3,6 kg	8 pounds
4 kg	9 pounds	4,5 kg	10 pounds