I'm British living in Poland and am unable to get the 'measuring cups' used in american recipes. Can anyone tell me roughly the size of cup used. Is it a traditional tea cup size? My scales convert from oz to grams, is there any easy way to convert for example 1 cup of sugar or flour into oz or grams please. At the minute I'm guessing quite a bit!
Thank you

weight convertor - Google Search (http://www.google.com.mt/search?hl=en&q=weight+convertor&meta=)

Hope this helps

Thanks for your quick response, they were plenty of hits for weight converter, but not what I was looking for. I guess it's not as straight forward as I thought, because of course 1 cup of flour isn't going to weigh the same as 1 cup of cooked apple or maybe 1 cup of butter. I suppose I really need to have an idea of what size cup is used. Thanks again though.

Neelie have you looked at your measuring jug I have cups right next to my pints and that just was bought in europe.

1 cup in ml - Google Search (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=1+cup+in+ml&btnG=Google+Search&meta=)

Google is your friend. SO useful for conversions.

I'm British living in Poland and am unable to get the 'measuring cups' used in american recipes. Can anyone tell me roughly the size of cup used. Is it a traditional tea cup size? My scales convert from oz to grams, is there any easy way to convert for example 1 cup of sugar or flour into oz or grams please. At the minute I'm guessing quite a bit!!
Thankyou
Hi--One cup is 8 oz

Fl. oz. I hope you mean.

Thanks to everyone for your help, I seem to have got the hang of it, well at least whatever I cook gets eaten!

And Neelie that's all that matters :D

Yes, fl. oz.