I once read a full page on a US baking site about how to properly measure flour without it settling and messing up your volume measurement, at the end of which she suggested that to test that you were doing it right, you should weigh your cup of flour and it should be X grams.

The reason most US recipes I like get tranferred to LJ is that I translate all stupid cup measures into weights. Particularly baffled by things like a cup of chopped veg. Why?

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