Equivalents, Substitutions, Weights and Measures for Cooking

Find information on equivalents, cooking and baking substitutions, 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.

Make your baking and cooking better by learning the answers to basic questionslike 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.

Food and Baking Equivalents

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.

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Kitchen Scales

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 at www.usps.com.

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