"Dee Randall" > wrote in message
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> > >>flour I suppose. Does anyone know where I could find a list of what
> > >>various baking/cooking ingredients should weigh?
> >
> > Don't forget "http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl".
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> I see on one of the url's given under this subject, it lists 1 lb. flour
as
> 4 cups equivalent or measurement.
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> The only thing I've found bothersome about "weighing" flour when it calls
> for a weight measurement of flour in a recipe is that if your called-for
> flour weight, because of many factors, turns out to be way less than you
> normally would want in order to make your recipe correctly, thus making
> your recipe quite short on flour --- and consequently a failure.
>
> Now this would present no problem if you were experienced with your
recipe,
> but it does present this problem when working with a new recipe.
>

I don't find that to be true. I NEVER measure flour using cups, NEVER. My
baked goods turn out just fine. I weigh the four, using 120 grams for each
cup specified in the recipe. It works just fine.