Measuring Cups and Spoons - What is a Cup - Video Tutorial

And have you ever noticed when you look at those dishes, once again the dishes ask you for something called a cup? For example I downloaded a beautiful marble cake dish that calls for 1 and a quarter cups of castor sugar, plus two and quarter cups of flour, plus three quarter cups of milk, and finally 1 and a half cups of icing sugar. I used to grabbed an ancient tea cup to gauge these quantities and my cakes appeared a bit droopy. OK I am being kind to myself. They were dreary and biscuit like! So, what is a cup? A cup is ... all sorts of things! It can be an egg cup, a mug, a tea cup, a mug, a piece of beautiful china, or an antique, or possibly a gilt prize. No, when we are creating cakes and baking; we are actually talking about a measuring cup, and a measuring cup is half an American pint. So when you see a recipe that requires a cup, in this case, a cup is a half an US pint. Or you might go actually complicated and state that a cup is forty eight tsps. Nonetheless, when we&cooking and when we&in the kitchen area, when we&talking about cups, we desire a measuring cup. So if you are tempted to obtain a little tea cup out of the cupboard to gauge your next dish, I urge you to stop. Instead visit your kitchen area drawer (typically the third one down) and instead get out your standardized measuring cups and spoons set.