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Equivalents, Substitutions, Weights and Measures for Cooking

Find information on cooking and baking substitutions, equivalents, weights, and measures.

Would you like to make your cooking and baking easier?

Learn what you need to know about substitutions, weights, and measures for cooking and baking recipes. These pages are full of useful information for your recipes about measuring, baking and cooking equivalents, and help with ingredient substitutions when you have ran out of that necessary ingredient to provide the same texture and consistency as the original item. Jars by Kitchen Window

Make your baking and cooking better by learning the answers to basic questions like how many cups make a quart?, how many apples do I need to make one cup?, how many lemons do I need to make a cup of lemon juice and many more.

Wondering why your recipe didn't turn out as good as it did the first time? Ingredient measurements can vary by cook, season, region, or even nationality.

If you are living in a very humid or dry climate, the weight of a cup of flour can vary greatly, even from month to month. Learn tips to help your recipes turn out great each time you make them.

Food and Baking Articles

Baking Weights and Measures Here is a quick refresher course in baking weights and measures. If it has been a while since you have done any baking, you will be back on track in no time after a brief review of the basics.

Food Equivalents This page gives you an easy reference chart of food equivalents, quantities, and yields. Answers to questions such as how many cups in a pound of flour, how many chopped apples make a cup.

Spring Cleaning your home? Don't Forget to Clean Out your Pantry! Hard to get excited about cooking or baking when you can’t find anything in your kitchen and question the freshness of ingredients? Expert tips for spring cleaning the pantry and kitchen cupboards.

Here is a Dual Duty Idea:To save a few dollars and double up your usage buy a multi-purpose postal scale that weighs mail up to 5 or 10 pounds. This is perfect for use in the kitchen for weighing dry ingredients and can also be used when you have a heavy envelope or small to medium package to send and you want to know the weight before you send it. Buy a digital scale for easy read out, down to the tenth or hundredth of an Ounce. You can buy them at various office supply places, or at the US Postal Service website: United States Postal Service

Kitchen Scales

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