Measurements

French Recipes and Foods of Provence

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Oven Temperatures °F °C Oven Dial Setting Baking Term 518 270 9 500 260 Very hot ... 475 245 464 240 8 450 230 ... Very Hot 425 220 410 210 7 400 205 Hot 375 190 Moderately hot 356 180 6 350 177 Moderate 325 165 Moderately slow 300 150 5 Slow 275 135 250 120 4 Very slow 225 107 200 93 190 88 3 180 82 170 77 165 74 160 71 150 66 140 60 2 130 54 120 49 110 38 90 32 86 30 1 80 27

Fluid Measurements Metric Tbs/Cup Fluid Oz. Grams 2 Tbs 1 30 1/4 cup 2 60 - 3 85 125 ml 1/2 cup 4 115 - 5 140 3/4 cup 6 180 250 ml 1 cup 8 225 - 9 250 1-1/4 cup 10 285 1-1/2 cup 12 340 1-3/4 cup 14 400 500 ml 2 cup, 1 pint 16 450 2-1/2 cup 20 560 750 ml 3 cup 24 675 3-1/2 cup 28 800 1 lt 4 cup, 1 qt 32 900 5 cup 40 6 cup 48 2 lt 8 cup, 2 qt 64 10 cup 80 3 lt 12 cup, 3 qt 96 4 qt 128   Yeast; Baker's Yeast. Levure de boulanger is sold in small flat packets, of 11 g. per packet. 1 packet (11 g, about 2/3 tablespoon) for 500 g (about 2 cups) of flour.

Measurements and Abbreviations 1 cl 1 centilitre 1/100 litre; 10 ml 0.34 fluid oz. 1 ml 1 millilitre 1/1000 litre; 1/10 cl 0.03 fluid oz. 1 dl 1 décalitre 1/10 litre; 100 ml; 10 cl 3.5 fluid oz just under 1/2 cup 1 lt 1 litre 1000 ml; 100 cl 1.06 qt 4.23 cup c. à soupe (c.s.) cuiller à soupe * tablespoon c. à café (c.c.) cuiller à café * teaspoon gousse (d'ail) clove (of garlic) botte (de persil) sprig (of parsely levure chimique    baking powder: 1 sachet = a bit more that 2 teaspoons g gram   Note: The French cuiller à soupe is a "soup spoon", and the French cuiller à cafè is a "coffee spoon". These are not used in French cuisine as precise measurements in the same way an Anglo-Saxon teaspoons or soupspoons are used for exact measures of things like yeast. Spelling "spoon" in French cookbooks: cuillère, cuiller. The word cuillerèe is also used, but technically means "the contents of the spoon".