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Subject: Re: Gifts for relatives in France - Suggestions needed Posted on: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:31:02 CST



Tim C. wrote:

> Following up to "Frank F. Matthews" :
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>>B Vaughan wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:33:36 +0100, Martin wrote:
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>>>>On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:34:31 +0100, B Vaughan wrote:
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>>>>>I have something called Master Converter which allows you to add your
>>>>>own equivalence tables. I had entered my laboriously obtained volume
>>>>>to weight equivalents into it, but lost it when I transferred it to a
>>>>>new computer.
>>>>
>>>>You should have used your PC to google and saved yourself the trouble
>>>
>>>
>>>Google for what? Here's the answer I got for flour:
>>>
>>>"One pound of flower is roughly 3 1/2 cups and one pound equals 455
>>>grams. So 455 divided by 3.5= 130 grams per cup. Roughly. I hope this
>>>helps. "
>>>
>>>Since he can't spell flour, and he's a bit off on the number of grams
>>>in a pound, I don't know if I trust his 3 1/2 cups either.
>>>
>>>I didn't get any answer at all googling for sugar.
>>>
>>>Then whole wheat flour is different from white flour (of which there
>>>are several kinds), and brown sugar is different from white sugar.
>>>
>>>
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>>Sugar is a disaster area, Granulated, powdered, chunk. Ouch!
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> Not to mention demerera or - heaven forbid - artificial sweeteners.

One of the newer sweeteners is designed for equivalence to granulated
sugar by volume but is much lighter.