How to Measure Ingredients
Flour – Stir flour in it’s container with spoon or wisk over a piece of wax paper. Carefully scoop sifted flour into measuring cup being careful not shake flour down in the cup. Pile the flour high in the cup and level off carefully with blade of table knife. Allow extra flour to fall onto wax paper. Return unused flour on wax paper to flour container. Measure liquids in glass measuring cups. The 1 cup mark is below the rim. Hve your eyes even with the mark on the cup when you are measuring. Measure dry ingredients in metal or plastic cups that come in a set of 1 cup, ½ cup, 1/3 cup and ¼ cup. Use standard measuring spoons, not the ones you use for meals. Make sure your teaspoon or tablespoon measurements of dry ingredients are right by leveling the spoonful off with the straight edge of a knife. Measure Powdered sugar the same way you measure flour. Sift or stir powder FIRST! Measure Brown sugar by filling cup, then pack down hard with your spoon. Add more sugar and push down till the cup is full. Level with knife. When you empty the brown sugar out, it keeps the shape of the cup. Other dry ingredients are measured by filling and leveling off with a knife. Shortening is packed in the cup a little at a time. Press out the air. Level off with the straight edge of a knife. Scrape it all out of the cup with a rubber scraper.
