How many ounces are in a cup?

[Jbck]

Using an American recipe, how many ounces or grams of dry ingredients equal 1 cup?
TIA

google it?

I've tried & I can only find for liquids but it seems an awful lot for dry ingredients.

i know 1 cup = 240 ml will have a look around as have a conversion chart saved somewhere

there is this what are you trying to measure?

if the whole recipe is in cups - just use a teacup then all the proportions remain the same

Barefoot Contessa always uses cups and I couldn't work out the quantities. As you say, the cup of liquids seems very different to a cup of flour. I watch with interest.

Furball it's not unfortunately there are grams & cups. It's the rocky road one on this board. here

Just realised it might be your recipe meridian would hate to mess it up & say it's rubbish

It depends on the dry ingredient - a cup is a measure of volume rather than weight IYSWIM, so for example a cup of feathers would weigh less than a cup of lead.

If it helps, a cup is 8 fluid ounces so if you have a measuring jug I would suggest putting your dry ingredient in so that it reaches the 8 floz level.

jbck- LOL yup thats mine! I would say in that case use a tea cup or coffee cup as furball says.. its an easy recipe

the mashmallows was pretty much the whole package of mini marshmallows.. ninus the ones that DS stole... and the pecans were aproxamitly the whole small package... about 100g from sainsburys... the tablespoon measurements were jsut that a tablespoon

Puppydogtails - reminds me of brother when I was about 10 asking me which weighed more a ton of feathers or a ton of lead - I obviously voted for the feathers

8 fluid ounces is a cup, but dry ingredients depend on the ingredient! Flour would be about 150g I think...

You can't convert american recipes in cups to weights. The recipe is worked out in volume - ie the number of cups of each ingredient. Different ingredients have completely different weights per identical volume, so it just can't be done. As long as you use the same cup for measuring it should work fine.

I shall report back when it's made. Not a big fan of nuts in chocolate so I'll be substituting pecans for cherries. Thanks all.

I got my cousin to bring me an american Jug with cup measures on back from the States.

1 cup white flour = 5oz 142g
1 cup wholemeal flour = 5 1/2oz 156g
1 cup granulated sugar = 7oz 198g

Butter

4 tablespoons=1/2 stick=1/4 cup = 2oz

8 tablespoons=1 stick= 1/2 cup = 4oz

Hope this helps

jennster you angel

I got these from the back of my american recipe book.

1 cup packed brown sugar (light or dark) 7oz = 198g

1 cup icing sugar 4oz = 113g

1 cup cocoa powder 3oz = 85g

Apparently Americans don't routinely have scales in their kitchens

And you're welcome

jennster-- I'm american and I have lived here for 9 years and still used cups and never heard of a scale till I came here to live... my MIL tried to show me how to measure stuff and it didn't take... luckily my mom brought me a measuring cup as wedding present.

I still don't have a set of scales after being in the uk for 11 years !!

I should qualify that as I have stacks of american/cdn cookery books, or use epicuroius.com

scales? pah!