Dear Jim, Is the 'cup (U.S.)' that you refer to below, a traditional U.S. cup of 8 U.S. fl. oz. or is it a modern U.S. metric cup of 250 mL?
Thanks, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia -- on 2004-02-04 15.34, James Frysinger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here are some data from the now out of print "Average Weight of a Meassured > Cup of Various Foods", Home Economics Research Report No. 41, Agricultural > Research Service, US Dept. of Agriculture. > > For 1 cup (U.S.) in terms of mass (in grams): > barley flour, unsifted, spooned 102 > yellow corn flour, unsifted, spooned 117 > cornmeal, yellow, degerminated 151 > cornmeal, white, degerminated 140 > rye, dark, unstirred, spooned 128 > rye, light, unstirred, spooned 101 > wheat, all purpose, unsifted, spooned 126 > wheat, all purpose, sifted, spooned 116 > wheat, bread, unsifted, spooned 123 > wheat, bread, sifted, spooned 117 > wheat, cake, unsifted, spooned 111 > wheat, cake, sifted, spooned 99 > sugar, brown, packed 211 > cornstarch 125 > sugar, confectioner's, unsifted 113 > sugar, confectioner's, sifted 95 > sugar, granulated 196 > molasses 309 > margerine 225 > shortening, hydrogenated 187 > oil, cooking 209 > yeast, active, dry 142 > > Data is often available for items in this handbook to indicate number of > samples and standard deviations, but I have obviously not included that here. > > I hope that this is helpful to kitchen commandos who do it right --- in > metric. > > Jim > > On Tuesday 2004 February 03 22:39, John S. Ward wrote: >> Hi Pat, >> >> I think the problem is that the densities of loose ingredients like flour >> are not well defined. To calibrate my measurement, I weighed a nominal >> 236.6 ml cup of water and found it weighed 234 g. Not perfect, but close >> enough. Since I repeated the measurements and weighed different volumes of >> flour to check for errors, the measurements should be reliable. They are >> rounded off to the nearest 10 g. >> >> In any case, here's what I got for nominal 236.6 ml cups: >> >> 120 g plain wheat flour >> 200 g granulated cane sugar >> 190 g uncooked white rice >> >> The differences can only partly be explained by the different cup >> definitions. Pat, you have a standing invitation to stop by my house in Los >> Angeles County so that we can repeat the experiment together to get to the >> bottom of this! >> >> John >> >> On Tuesday 03 February 2004 14:34, Pat Naughtin wrote: >>> When you refer to 80 grams of flour, you are referring to about 1/2 of a >>> 250 mL cup -- not 2/3. When my wife and I experimented with common >>> cooking ingredients we found that a 250 mL cup held about: >>> >>> 150 grams of plain white flour >>> 250 grams of white sugar >>> 230 grams of brown rice
