Exactly How Big is a Spoonful of Sugar?

Here is a beginning lesson or reminder of measurement conversions, once you can remember these it makes it a lot easier to half/double recipes.

Volume Measurements:

3 teaspoons= 1 tablespoon
2 tablespoons= 1 ounce
8 oz= 1 cup
2 cups= 1 pint
2 pints= 1 quart
4 quarts= 1 gallon

Measuring with weight is always more precise than volume. This is handy in baking because the more accurate you are the better the product will be. The reason weight is more precise is because 1 cup of flour one day can weigh more than it does another day depending upon how compacted it is. So if a recipe calls for weight try to measure accordingly and not convert it to cups as it will not be nearly as accurate.. Water, milk, juice and egg whites are the only things that have the same weight as they do volume.

And remember when cooking that measurements are not nearly as important. I rarely measure anything with cooking. Once you get the feel for spices and how much they impact your food it will be second nature to add spices without worrying that you are over/under spicing. The most important thing with cooking I can say is to TASTE things. It's a lot easier to fix something that is still in the pan than something that is on the table.