Need help converting metric units!!

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cheezz

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I want to make this butter cookie recipe from CakeCentral but the measurements are in metric. I have tried to look up conversions (which I put in brackets) - can anyone tell me if I have come close?

250 gr. (8 oz./1 cup) Butter

125 gr. (4 oz/1/2 cup) Sugar Powder

55 gr. (1.77 oz/3-1/2 Tbl) Corn Starch

10 gr. (.32 oz/1.9 tsp) Vanilla

1 Large Egg

500 gr. (16 oz/2 cups) All-purpose Flour

 
Here is what I come up wtih - close to yours.

Will you be weighing the dry ingredients? That will give a better result.

250 grams butter = 8.8 ounces

125 gr sugar = 4.4 ounces

55 gr corn starch = 1.94 ounces

10 gr vanilla = .35 ounces

500 gr flour = 17.6 ounces

http://convert.french-property.co.uk/

 
Hope this helps

250 gr. of butter - 1 cup plus 2 tbsp.
125 gr. of confectioners sugar - 1 cup plus 2 tbsp.
granulated sugar - 2/3 cup
500 gr. of flour - 3 1/3 cups

 
Ok, now I'm really confused on the flour measurement.

I figure 500 grams to be almost 5 cups flour, according to the conversion site SallyBR posted...

 
With the various helps, this is what I have come up with BUT.....

250 gr. (1 cup + 2 Tbl) Butter
125 gr. (rounded ¾ cup?) Sugar Powder
55 gr. (5.7 Tbl) Corn Starch
10 gr. (1.9 tsp) Vanilla
500 gr. (4.96 cups) All-purpose Flour

This seems like WAY more flour than it should be - other shortbread recipes have a 2-to-1 ratio of flour to butter... 3-to-1 at most. This has almost 5-to-1.

GREAT website SallyBR!

 
in 500 gr. there are 17.6 ounces. A cup of flour usually

weighs from 4 1/2 to 5 ounces. Using these figures, 500 gr. would be 3.5 to 3.9 cups of flour.

 
See, that's what makes me crazy!!!!!!!!!

At the site SallyBR posted, I selected U.S. all-purpose flour, plugged in 500 grams, and it converts it to 5.032 cups!!

rhoward says it's 3-1/2 cups with quite logical statistics....

others say 2 cups.

How can that be?! This is why I hate metric smileys/frown.gif

 
Weight is more precise than vol.--that's why most Euro chefs hate U.S. measurements. smileys/wink.gif

A cheap kitchen scale's probably the best route if you use a lot of recipes in metric.

ETA: At some point, all you can do is dive into the recipe (provided you're not scaling it up by a factor of 10, or something) and see if you have too much/too little flour, and adjust...

 
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