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Questions tagged [measurements]

Determining the quantity of an ingredient needed for a recipe. Particularly useful for understanding obscure terminology, converting between different standards, or interpreting historical recipes.

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How to know how salty is my soup without tasting?

This is a sister to this question. I need a method or a trick to measure (or guess) how saline is my food using normal tools or substances available on the super-market Any help?
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When used for measuring ingredients in cooking what is the difference between a "dry ounce" and a "liquid ounce"?

I've seen numerous recipes that call for measuring "liquid ounce" but at the same time telling you to measure something like flour as "dry ounce" - I've even seen references to "fluid ounces". Are they interchangeable when measuring ingredients? …
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What Kinds of Recipes Should I Sift/Aerate The Flour?

We've talked about methods for sifting flour (How can I make sifting easier?), and the purposes of sifting (What is the purpose of sifting dry ingredients?). How can I tell whether a recipe specifies sifting for aeration? How can I tell when to…
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Need help reconciling quantities in this recipe

Here's a recipe from a package of chocolate chips (edited, but not substantively): 2¼ cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed ½ cup granulated sugar 1 cup softened butter or…
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Converting teaspoon/tablespoon measurements to mL?

I have been looking at curry recipes on an American web site and it gives measurements in teaspoons and tablespoons. I am not familiar with these measurements as we do not use them locally. Does teaspoon/tablespoon refer to the size of the spoon or…
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"tall can of evaporated milk", how big is it?

We have a recipe for chocolate fudge that is 40+ years old. That recipe calls for a "tall can of evaporated milk" and one (8 oz) jar of marshmallow creme. In the last few years we've been having trouble with the fudge (too thick and hardens too…
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What is a “small cup” in Australia and/or old recipes?

In older or Australian recipes, is “small cup” a specific (if not quite standardized) measurement? If so, what, approximately, is that measurement? I’m going to be making a recipe from an Australian cookbook this weekend, “Jet Age Cookbook… compiled…
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How much is a “glass,” in an old English cocktail recipe (1930)?

Cocktail recipes in a reprint recipe book frequently call for liquors by the measure of a “glass.” Just how large was this?
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A cup of cilantro?

Generally speaking when a recipe calls for a cup of a fresh herb like cilantro, how tight to I have to cram it into the measuring cup?
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By `1 tbsp of x` should I assume heaped tablespoon or leveled tablespoon?

When they (recipes) say 1 tbsp of flour (example), do they mean heaped or leveled? What's the standard guess?
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Are cooking show minutes really minutes?

I've noticed that cooking show inches are not very accurate. I can usually see that the "half inch slices" called for by the chef are no where near that, which is fine, since I can see the thickness for myself. It only just occurred to me that…
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Big Chicken vs Small Chicken: weight and stuffing volume ratios

I need to adjust a recipe for a stuffed chicken. The recipe calls for a 2kg chicken, and say W grams of stuffing. Now I plan on buying a smaller chicken because it's for less people, how can I estimate the amount of stuffing I'd need for the smaller…
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How to measure a cup of "solid" ingredient?

I was reading a recipe in which it was mentioned among the ingredients "8 cups of broccoli florets". Measuring by "cups" is for liquids, right? For solid ingredients, are we measuring the "weight" of the ingredient? How to convert "8 cups of…
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Convert seed based measurements to pre-ground?

I want to use a recipe that gives ingredient measurements based on the spice seeds. My local grocery store does not have at least half of the ingredients in seed form. But the store does have them pre-ground. How can I translate this recipe's…
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What do you use to measure the weight of ingredient?

I don't have a single tools to measure the weight of ingredient. I came across recipe with different weight: 1/4 cup olive oil 1 pound dried spaghetti 2 tablespoons butter 4 ounces Pecorino Romano cheese, finely grated 1 1/2 teaspoon finely ground…
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