Food Conversion
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Re: Food Conversion
Originally Posted by oshel
Not too much, I hope - she must be quite lopsidded!!
I think its previous breast feeder thing :scared: left is always bigger than right I hear
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Re: Food Conversion
Originally Posted by Eskimo
I think its previous breast feeder thing :scared: left is always bigger than right I hear
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Re: Food Conversion
Eskimo, we know what side of the bed you sleep on
I can't believe you folk don't use the American cup system. It is as easy as pie! Fiddling with scales, etc..blah!
I can't believe you folk don't use the American cup system. It is as easy as pie! Fiddling with scales, etc..blah!
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Re: Food Conversion
Originally Posted by izibear
Eskimo, we know what side of the bed you sleep on
I can't believe you folk don't use the American cup system. It is as easy as pie! Fiddling with scales, etc..blah!
I can't believe you folk don't use the American cup system. It is as easy as pie! Fiddling with scales, etc..blah!
#20
Re: Food Conversion
Originally Posted by Wintersong
It's not as accurate though. Apart from the fact that, as someone pointed out, you don't know whether to pack it tightly or loosely, there is also the fact that you can only really measure 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 etc. With scales, you can measure accurately to (depending on the scales obviously) the nearest gram.
A lot of US recipes especially in magazines don't even use measurements. It's 1 packet of this, 1 jar of that and 1 can of the other . Mix and layer, shove in the oven and voila a completely home made meal.
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Re: Food Conversion
Originally Posted by mandpete
A lot of US recipes especially in magazines don't even use measurements. It's 1 packet of this, 1 jar of that and 1 can of the other . Mix and layer, shove in the oven and voila a completely home made meal.
Trouble is, if you try that with a victoria sponge, you could have a bit of a mess on your hands!
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Re: Food Conversion
Originally Posted by Wintersong
Sounds like my style of cooking - bung it in and hope for the best
Trouble is, if you try that with a victoria sponge, you could have a bit of a mess on your hands!
Trouble is, if you try that with a victoria sponge, you could have a bit of a mess on your hands!
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Re: Food Conversion
Originally Posted by mandpete
I still remember the Victoria Sponge recipe from school. However many eggs you use double the amount in ounces for sugar, butter and SR flour. I love Victoria Sponge cake and always use the recipe for making fairy buns. In fact I think I'll make some this weekend with my daughter.
I used to have loads of fun cooking with my Mum. Melting moments and peanut butter cookies were our favourites, if I remember rightly!
#24
Re: Food Conversion
Originally Posted by Wintersong
Are they like butterfly cakes, where you cut the top off and cut it in half then stick it back in to look like wings?
I used to have loads of fun cooking with my Mum. Melting moments and peanut butter cookies were our favourites, if I remember rightly!
I used to have loads of fun cooking with my Mum. Melting moments and peanut butter cookies were our favourites, if I remember rightly!
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Re: Food Conversion
Originally Posted by mandpete
A lot of US recipes especially in magazines don't even use measurements. It's 1 packet of this, 1 jar of that and 1 can of the other . Mix and layer, shove in the oven and voila a completely home made meal.
#26
Re: Food Conversion
Originally Posted by mandpete
I call all little buns fairy cakes and I will be making butterfly cakes with buttercream this weekend. I also used to love helping my Mum in the kitchen.
#27
Re: Food Conversion
Originally Posted by ladyofthelake
My mum always insisted on making a fruit cake with my daughter when ever we went to visit. It's one of the lasting memories my daughter has of her Grandma now she's gone.
#28
Re: Food Conversion
Google has a useful conversion tool, doesn't work with cups to grams but is fine with most other measures - liquids, temperatures, weights, etc. Use the "in" tool.
eg. "2 cups in millilitres"
produces the result "2 US cups = 473.176475 millilitres"
eg. "2 cups in millilitres"
produces the result "2 US cups = 473.176475 millilitres"
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Re: Food Conversion
If I have a UK recipe I use scales to measure.
If I have a US recipe I use cups.
I tried converting some in the past and had many failures. As stated before... A cup of flour compared to a cup of sugar converted into weight wont work unless I spend ages measuring the cups of ingredients and weighing them so I know the conversion... Not worth it.
As far as how much to put in the cup.. Pour the ingredient in and then lightly shake it to level it... easy....
Oh and Deliah is wonderful by the way....
If I have a US recipe I use cups.
I tried converting some in the past and had many failures. As stated before... A cup of flour compared to a cup of sugar converted into weight wont work unless I spend ages measuring the cups of ingredients and weighing them so I know the conversion... Not worth it.
As far as how much to put in the cup.. Pour the ingredient in and then lightly shake it to level it... easy....
Oh and Deliah is wonderful by the way....
#30
Re: Food Conversion
Originally Posted by oshel
I've decided to do a bit of cooking and on looking for recipes have found some interesting ones which are American and require cups of this and that - does anyone know of a chart off the web that lists the conversion into grams? I've looked and you have to enter 1 cup at a time, I just want to print off a chart rather than looking it up each time.
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http://www.cookshops.com/Product_Det...idxProduct=192