Contemporary baking

• Ingredients can be measured by...

  weight or volume
• Imperial system


  what Canada uses (pints, quarts, gallons and pounds)
• Metric system


  what the US uses (kilograms, milliliters, liters, etc)>
• What are measuring spoons?


  used to measure small amounts of dry and liquid ingredients
• Dry ingredients measuring spoons

  scoop with a spoon and level the top with a flat edge
• Liquid measuring spoon


  pour the liquid until it reaches the top
• What are dry measuring cups?

  used to measure dry ingredients such as flour, oats, sugar, etc.
• How to do measure flour & Sugar?

  overfill a dry measuring cup and use a flat edge to scrape off the excess flour

  DO NOT SHAKE TO LEVEL OFF
• How to measure brown sugar?

  firmly pack the brown sugar in the cup and level the top.

  IT SHOULD HOLD IT'S SHAPE WHEN REMOVED FROM THE MEASURING CUP.
• Weight is preferred over volume as it is more accurate and consistent.
• To measure by weight you use?

  Spring Scale or Digital Scale