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Originally Posted by Traci Reed
A cup is also 8 oz liquid
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This is still a volume measurement and not a weight. 1 cup is a volume and 8 oz is also a volume.
What you need is a conversion between Volume and weight which will be dependent on the item. It all depends on the density of the item. Sugar is more dense than flour so the same VOLUME will be different WEIGHTS.
It is, I believe, more accurate to bake using weight measures, because it eliminates the variability of how the baker puts the flour in a cup. If you put flour in a cup and shake it around it will settle. Then if you add more (to get the volume right) you will have too much. That's why us Americans have to learn how to scoop flour gently into a cup! Betty Crocker even has a special name for that 'technique'!
Let me poke around on Google and see if I can find something...