Cups conversion - help!!

[Ladygaladriel]

Hi
I have tried googling this but every site seems to come out with a different answer. My recipe asks for cups of the following things and I just need to know either the cup size to use or the grams or ml:

• sugar
• water
• golden syrup
• condensed milk

Does anyone have any tried and tested conversions please? I can’t be doing too many practices on this.
Thanks

If all of its in cups then I don't suppose it matters what size you use as the proportions will be the same

Just use the same cup, measure each ingredient so say 1 cup of sugar, 2 cups of water, half cup of Golden syrup? It's more of a ratio than measurement I think.

It’s not all in cups though. I also need 8oz chocolate and powdered gelatin in grams. I might just use a teacup and see how it turns out.

1/4 cup is 60ml/g

My 1 cup of sugar is 215g, 1 cup water is 220g/220ml. I don't have the other stuff (I was using metal measuring cups btw)

It depends firstly on whether the recipe is British or American. US cup measurements are different to UK cups. Can’t remember the difference but if you google US vs UK cups I’m sure you’ll find the answer.

As for a ml/gm conversion - you need to do it for each individual item and you need to be specific to the type of sugar or flour. If it’s a US recipe and using plain flour search for “all purpose flour”. If using caster sugar search for “fine granulated sugar”. If it’s a UK recipe then just use the normal terms you are used to here. The important thing is to be specific thought because a cup of brown sugar is different to a cup of caster sugar is different to a cup of whole meal flour is different to a cup of plain flour is different to a cup of milk etc

Thank you for all your help. It’s an American recipe and they just say sugar, not sure what type.
I’ll have a proper look tonight and have a couple of practices

I just bought some baking measuring cups from The Range; I got bogged down with all the conversions too.

1 cup of butter is 227g
1 cup of plain flour is 125g
1 cup of caster sugar is 200g

It is so much easier to just buy measuring cups.

Sugar will most likely be the US equivalent of caster sugar which is fine granulated.

Actually it might be super fine or extra fine. (It’s a few years since I’ve lived in the US and can’t remember - sorry!)

Thank you all. I’ll add measuring cups to my list! It’s all very confusing and every site I looked at seemed to say something different.

Could you look for a similar recipe with UK measures?

Yes I might try that. It’s a white chocolate mirror glaze if anyone knows one