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Revision as of 17:09, 29 December 2024 by Family27390 (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The coffee cup is a culinary measurement unit in the United Kingdom. It is named after a small cup for the after‑dinner coffee served to aid digestion (a demitasse). 1 coffee cup is 21⁄2 British imperial fluid ounces.
Three British culinary measurement units are related to the coffee cup: the breakfast cup (8 British imperial fluid ounces), the cup (6 British imperial fluid ounces), and the teacup (5 British imperial fluid ounces).
| 1 coffee cup | = | 5⁄16 | breakfast cup |
| = | 5⁄12 | cup | |
| = | 1⁄2 | teacup | |
| = | 21⁄2 | imperial fluid ounces | |
| = | 1⁄8 | British imperial pint | |
| = | 1⁄16 | British imperial quart | |
| = | 1⁄64 | British imperial gallon | |
| = | 5 | UK tablespoons | |
| = | 20 | UK teaspoons | |
| ≈ | 0·3 | US customary cup | |
| ≈ | 22⁄5 | US customary fluid ounces | |
| ≈ | 0·28 | metric cup | |
| ≈ | 71·03 | millilitres |
All four units are the traditional British equivalence of the US customary cup and the metric cup, used in situations where a US cook would use the US customary cup and a cook using metric units the metric cup. Which of those four units is used depends on the quantity or volume of the ingredient. British cookery books and recipes, especially those from the days before the UK’s partial metrication, commonly use two or more of the aforesaid units simultaneously: for example, the same recipe may call for a ‘breakfastcupful’ of one ingredient and a ‘cupful’, ‘teacupful’, or ‘coffeecupful’ of another ingredient. Unlike the US customary cup and the metric cup, the breakfast cup, cup, teacup, and coffee cup are not measuring cups: they are simply everyday drinking vessels commonly found in British households and typically having a capacity of 8 British imperial fluid ounces, 6 British imperial fluid ounces, 5 British imperial fluid ounces, and 21⁄2 British imperial fluid ounces, respectively; due to long-term and wide-spread use, they have been transformed into measurement units for cooking.
See also
References
- ^ ‘Consuming Interest’, Elizabeth David, The Spectator, 15 March, 1963
- ‘Tea Making, My Experiments ’, chapter XVII, page 456, volume IIIB, The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton (1930)
- Page 665, Enquire Within upon Everything (1894)
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