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[angelikitten]

This is going to sound like the stupidest question ever, but...

How much, exactly, is a 'cup' of something? Does it depend on what it's a cup of? I've never been able to find measuring cups, so is this just an American measurement?



(I warned you it was a stupid question!)

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Cups

[cesy]

There are English cups and there are American cups, and they are different sizes. English cups are rarely used these days.

My mother has a device called a Taler measure which measures in cups of different types, but I can't remember much about it.

Re: Cups

[damned_colonial]

Wellllll... I think you are thinking of the obsolete Imperial cup, which is rarely used these days. But currently in England (and most places outside the US) metric cups are used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(volume) has good information. Wikipedia is generally excellent on culinary measures, actually.