It's days like these -

[desperance]

- when I find that none, not one of the three clever electronic scaleses in my house is working - that I finally understand why Americans measure quantities by volume. For lo, all my cups are working!

Also, I have found a convenient conversion chart on the internets, which boasts of its accuracy: it tells me that one pound of flour is 1.981 cups. I'm not sure I have a .001-cup measure...

Comments

[anef.livejournal.com]

It may not make a difference, of course, and I'm sure you know already, but (just in case) I think I should mention that there are American cups and there are English cups, and they are different.

PS, am currently doing the thing with the beef. Smells good.

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

1.981 looks like 2 to me.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

It depends on the flour, and how well it packs, and that does vary (though not as bad as 'contents may settle' bags of cereals). Anybody that tries to tell you how much volume that pound of flour takes to an accuracy of less than one percent is outright demented.

It's when a recipe asks for 3/4 cups of butter that I despair totally.

Oh, and what happened to your old-fashioned balance scales? You didn't discard them in favour of battery things, did you?

(Edited numerous times.)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry you edited that: I preferred 3/44 cups of butter...

And it was my mother who had the old balance scales; I have spent my adult life looking at expensive replicas and thinking "No. They're expensive for no good reason, and these days we can has electricity..."

It may have been a mistake.