In american recipes, how much in weight is meant by a cup ?

I have a recipe for a sugar free low fat carrot cake (I know it sounds rotten but it looks lovely if you have the whole recipe) that i want to make for my boyfriend who has to have a low fat, low sugar diet. It is an american recipe though and the amounts are in cups, as in 1/2 cup flour, etc. What weight exactly is meant by a cup.

A cup is 8 Fluid OZ

Solids is another thing and there are lots of variables

8oz dry weigh or around half a pint 10fl 0z

In the metric system, a cubic centimeter of water is a gram.

In the "english" system, an inch is 2.54 centimeters, about the width of a farmer's thumb. A cubic inch is an ounce of water, both in weight and volume. A cup is 8 ounces, approximately the same volume as the grain that would fill a farmer's hand, if heaped on. Two cups is a pint, 16 ounces, a large drinking glass. A can of cola, at 12 ounces, is about a cup and a half.

There is a difference and I cannot say off hand but the best bet as you obviously have access to a computer is to log on to bbc.co.uk/food and look for their conversions of weights and measures.

You can get sets of measuring cups, all held together by a ring ranging from 1 cup to a teaspoon in measurement. You fill the appropriate cup and level off the top. And there you have the measurements.

Hope this hass helped.

one cup = 150 ml (milliliter) by volume and can not be represented in weight.

It means you go by Volume not weight...a cubic inch of one thing could weight more......or less than something else

i never worry about that.i just take one of those containers that have 1,1/2,1/4 cup or the series of containers,level it and dump it in.

A cup is a volumn measurement not weight. 1 gallon is 4 quarts is 8 pints is 16 cups. A gallon of water weighs about 8 lbs so a cup is 8/16= 1/2 lb approximately.

Oh boy! I hate American cooking measures, so imprecise, not that the Imperial system is great either, give me metric every time. Any road give this a try: http://www.greenchronicle.com/measures.htm

8 oz

usually, because things weight differently depending on volume

A cup is not a weight measure, it is by volume. One cup is 8 fluid ounces or about 236ml.

5 oz 1 cup + 2 tblsp

3 oz 1/2 cup + 2 tblsp

The link does provide you will a lot of conversion measurement

You can buy a set of proper cooking 'cups' in Asda for a few pounds.

1 cup is the equivalent to 250ml.

A cup is measured as 150 mL, or 8 fl. oz. (fluid* ounces). If, by weight, you mean to say what is the weight in grams, you are asking an impossible question. There is no answer to this question, mainly because different fluid* substances (water, corn syrup, flour, suger, etc.) have different densities.

The actual weight of a cup of a substance cannot be calculated.

*Fluid meaning able to fill into spaces, shapes

when measuring dry ingredients, say 1/2 Cup, take the dry measuring cup and fill it up with flour (don't tap it down to take in more flour). Fill it up in heaps then using the back of the knife, scrape the edge until you get a 'levelled' rim (untapped) then whatever is in your cup is the amount that you want

i'd like to add that if your recipe is in cups then don't measure the flour by weight as different ingredients vary in weight. (i.e. half a cup of sugar weighs differently from half a cup of water or flour.)

hope i didn't confuse you.

The weight of a cup depends on the ingredient.

Here are the weights of some common ingredients:

White Flour: 1 Cup = 125 grams

Whole Wheat Flour: 1 Cup = 120 grams

Grated Carrots: 1 Cup = 110 grams

Skim Milk: 1 Cup = 247 grams

Butter: 1 Cup = 227 grams

Hopefully that helps!

240 ml