tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post4409354182850573703..comments2018-09-25T11:11:06.547+01:00Comments on Cookery Disasters: Weights and MeasuresPokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-89804766020236125242011-01-14T05:07:40.841+00:002011-01-14T05:07:40.841+00:00some comments:
Australian recipes use cup measure...some comments:<br /><br />Australian recipes use cup measures too, as do some older English ones. However American and Australian/English cup measures are (predictably) different.<br /><br />Whichever way, it is a standard measure, which you can purchase from any store which sells kitchen equipment. (Robert Dyas, John Lewis for instance)<br /><br />A cup measure is a volume measure, and assumes that you have not tamped whichever ingredient you are measuring, and that the ingredient is level with the top of the measure. <br /><br />This is also true for any spoon measure. Unless it specifically says "heaped" then it is assumed that the ingredient is level with the edge of the spoon. Again, there are standard "spoon" measures these days.<br /><br />For what it's worth I found the use of weights for dry ingredients to be VERY frustrating in the UK, as I didn't have kitchen scales, just cup measures, as any good cook should have (if they're from Australia).Krinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06051094700732855551noreply@blogger.com