Thread: Making lunch for a visitor

I found a chocolate torte recipe. I'm almost definitely going to make it. Even if I do have to do math to figure out the recipe.

Originally Posted by christineka

I found a chocolate torte recipe. I'm almost definitely going to make it. Even if I do have to do math to figure out the recipe.

If you're working from a metric recipe, here's an excellent conversion page you can use (and bookmark). It's especially helpful because Russian recipes almost invariably measure dry granular ingredients like flour and sugar by their weight in grams, rather than their volume in milliliters. And that can make conversion tricky because in America, we nearly always measure flour and sugar by volume, not weight, and not everyone has a kitchen scale. But a lot of online metric/US conversion calculators only tell you how to "translate" mL to cups, which isn't very useful if the original recipe calls for "90g of flour".

However, the page I linked to includes an extensive table of weight-to-volume conversions for a couple dozen dry ingredients like flour, sugar, bread crumbs, oatmeal, chopped nuts, etc. (Thus, 90 grams of flour is about 3/4 cup, but 90 grams of uncooked white rice is only 1/2 cup.)