US 'cup' measurements vs grams?

[LUVmyBELLY]

Hi,

I am having problems when baking because a lot of recipes here use the US 'cup' as a measurement, which is fine, if you have a 'cup'. I have 2 measuring cups, but they are in grams and pints. One cup divides the grams up into flour, sugar and liquid. So 200 grams in each are different. I understand that the US 'cup' is approx 235 grams, but which one, flour, sugar or liquid?

My cakes and muffins aren't working very well because of this.

Please help!

[Zeldaz]

Converting volume to weight doesn't really work. This site may help, as it gives equivalents for hundreds of ingredients.
http://www.recipes4us.co.uk/us_cups_to_weight.htm

[Katzen]

I use this website, which converts weight to volume - by ingredient, which is important, because 100g of icing sugar is different in volume than 100g of granulated sugar: http://www.onlineconversion.com/weight_volume_cooking.htm

Another good site is this one: http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/cooking-conversions/cooking-conversions-calculator.aspx

Best of luck!

Kat

[Dee514]

Here are some additional conversion links that are handy to keep bookmarked

Flour Amounts Conversion Calculator

Rice and Rice Flour Conversion Calculator

Sugar Conversion Calculator

Butter Conversion Calculator

[mickeydownunder]

Dee514 wrote:
Here are some additional conversion links that are handy to keep bookmarked

Flour Amounts Conversion Calculator

Rice and Rice Flour Conversion Calculator

Sugar Conversion Calculator

Butter Conversion Calculator

G'day and big thanks

have bookmarked it and I too find it difficult sometimes re conversaions as I was born and bred in NY but now have converted to metric!!