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Cup (6 fluid ounces; [33] named after an everyday drinking cup) Teacup (5 fluid ounces; [34] named after a typical teacup) Coffee cup (2 1 ⁄ 2 fluid ounces; [35] named after a small cup for the after‑dinner coffee served to aid digestion (a demitasse)) Wine glass (2 fluid ounces; [36] [37] named after a small glass for serving liqueur)
In L. Frank Baum's The Patchwork Girl of Oz, one of the ingredients required for a magic spell is a gill of water from a dark well.In chapter 19, the obscure unit is used for humor including a pun with the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill", which also involved a well.
Many dry ingredients, such as granulated sugar, are not very compressible, so volume measures are consistent. Others, notably flour, are more variable. Others, notably flour, are more variable. For example, 1 cup of all-purpose flour sifted into a cup and leveled weighs about 100 grams (3½ oz), whereas 1 cup of all-purpose flour scooped from ...
From 1996 to 2016, there was an increase in the serving sizes of food. For example, in 2016 the average muffin in America is 130 grams, but 20 years before the serving size was 85 grams. [8] Another example is the bagel, for which the diameter and calories have both doubled over the same 20 years.
“Depending on the brand, 8 oz of store-bought coconut water has around 500 milligrams (mg) of potassium, 30 to 40 mg of sodium, and 4% of the recommended daily value for magnesium and calcium ...
The next time you're left with a half-full bottle of wine after a party, don't pour it down the drain. We tapped two wine experts to give you their best tips for storing leftover wine.
The cup is a cooking measure of volume, commonly associated with cooking and serving sizes.In the US, it is traditionally equal to one-half US pint (236.6 ml). Because actual drinking cups may differ greatly from the size of this unit, standard measuring cups may be used, with a metric cup commonly being rounded up to 240 millilitres (legal cup), but 250 ml is also used depending on the ...
One cup cooked farro contains 6.5 grams of protein and six grams of fiber, as well as B-vitamins, red blood cell-supporting iron and magnesium. When shopping for farro, choose whole instead of ...