What size is a Cup
By MAllen400
@MAllen400 (829)
April 6, 2009 3:37am CST
I often see American recipes that say add a cup of something or other. In England we do not have cup as a measure.
Our cups, I presume they mean the same as we have our tea and coffee in vary a great deal.
So can anyone tell me what size cup they mean in recipes please?
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
7 Apr 09
a cup is 8 oz.of whatever. do y'all not have measuring cups that u can go by? i'd be lost w/out mine.
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
6 Apr 09
Way back before one could buy measuring cups and soforth cooks used tea cups to measure the ingredients with. Today the standard measurement for the United States cup of dry ingredients is 8 oz., 1/2 pound, or 225 grams. For liquid ingredients it is 8 fluid oz, 1/2 pint or 237 mi. Most of our measuring cup now have the grams and ml. on them too. for more details go to
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/BritishEquiv.htm
