[Riala]

I have searched every corner of the internet, and I am still not able to find a simple conversion chart or software.

I am trying to work out what 3 are in lbs and oz.  The recipe is:

3 cups fresh strawberries, sliced (about 1½ pint baskets or 4 cups whole berries or 1 pound)

1 cup sugar

2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

[jennyb]

have you got a small cup?  i found that my childhood peter rabbit mug, my first china mug/cup is just the right size.

 I guess about the size of a normal teacup/coffee cup rather than a taller mug.

[Aidy]

Maybe I am being thick here but I dont think you can covert it, the way I am looking at it is if the strawberrys are whole, then you will fit so many into a cup, if they are sliced then you would get more (weight wise) into the same cup as less area will be wasted. A cup is generally 8oz's.

[Riala]

But what about sugar, she said 1 cup of that in the recipe too...

I always thought it was the same weight fruit, for the same weight sugar.. is that right?

If so, does that mean I need roughly 8oz sugar and 8oz fruit with 2 tablespoons of Lemon juice?

[Val H]

This may be handy US cups to weight.

[Val H]

I'm presuming this is a jam recipe. Do remember that strawberries are low in pectin. That, combined with the comparatively low amount of sugar used, is not going to give a good set. If you want to use the sugar as stated, I would add some liquid or dry pectin.

[Trillium]

The UK is more into weighing ingredients than we are in North America. A cup of sugar can be calculated as 8 fluid oz  in a measuring cup rather than 8 oz avoirdupois (weight). yes, there is a difference.

And as Aidy explained, if you chop up berries, you'll get more in a cup unit rather than leaving them whole. 3 cups sliced pretty much equals 4 cups whole.

[unaspenser]

Might I suggest onlineconversion.com?  My husband and I use it a lot.

[Riala]

Thank you all.

[Celery]

Have you look o Download .com?

[chrissie B]

i saw in another thread a link to the conversion charts , it was a good one , think it was posted by val will have a look ,
it was
www.recipes4us.co.uk/us_cups_to_weight.htm  think thats the one .
hope it helps
chrissie b

[Patricia]

Hi all, If you need some help converting the recipes I can give a hand. I am an American now living here in the UK.  I did come up with a bit of a conversion chart for some UK friends that I share recipes with off and on.... maybe it can help here too.

Okay did a bit of weighing and measuring.... Let me know if there is anything specific that you want measured.

Flour I used just ordinary Plain white...
1 cup = 130 grams
1/2 cup = 65 grams
1/3 cup = 48 grams
1/4 cup = 32 grams
Now in American cooking a little more here and there won't hurt.

When American recipes say sugar they mean Granulated sugar... If they say superfine they mean Caster and Powdered is icing sugar....
I measured Granulated below, but if  you need the others measured let me know.
1 cup = 200 grams
1/2 cup = 100 grams
1/3 cup = 64 grams
1/4 cup = 50 grams

Butter in the US comes in sticks and some recipes call for a stick of butter or margarine. That is equal to 1/2 cup.
1 cup = 8 oz or 227 grams
1/2 cup = 4 oz or 113.5 grams

Dry ingredients are measured in the cups as the flour and sugar and wet ingredients are measured in a liquid measuring cup.
Those measurements are as follows.
1 cup = 8 fluid oz or 250 ml
1/2 cup = 4 oz or 125 ml
1/4 cup = 2 oz or 75 ml
and 1/3 cup = not quite 3 oz or 83 ml roughly
An American Quart = 32 fluid ozs and is 2 American pints.
An American Pint is 16 fluid ozs and is 2 American liquid cups.

Okay that is what I measured. I think Tablespoons and Teaspoons are roughly the same. We don't use desert spoons in our cooking so won't need to measure that.

I set this up for my friends mainly for cakes and biscuit type of recipes, but if you need I can do other types of ingredients if you have a specific recipe you are needing help with. Also if you are unsure of ingredients too. 

For the strawberries in the recipe I would use a coffee mug full for the cup measurement.