"serene" > wrote in message
al.net...
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:41:16 -0800, Ophelia wrote
> (in article > ):
>
>>
>> "Ann Pacl" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> There are 8 ounces to 1 cup. Happy cooking.
>>
>> These cup measures confuse me. A cup of flour (for e.g) could not be
>> the
>> same as a cup of rice or cornflakes surely? How do you work out the
>> different densities?
>
> 8 *fluid* ounces, not eight ounces by weight. A cup of flour doesn't
> weigh the same as a cup of water or rice or cornflakes, but if you're
> measuring it by the cup, you don't have to worry about the weight
> density.

Ahh ok.. so we are using fluid weights. Does that still work out as 8 ounces
of cornflakes as opposed to rice? I would have thought that a cup of non
fluids would be different?