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- // densities of cooking ingredients from The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum
- // so you can convert '2 cups sugar' to grams, for example, or in the other
- // direction grams could be converted to 'cup flour_scooped'.
- butter := 8. oz/cup;
- butter_clarified := 6.8 oz/cup;
- cocoa_butter := 9. oz/cup;
- shortening := 6.75 oz/cup; // vegetable shortening
- stickbutter := 1/4 lb;
- vegetable_oil := 7.5 oz/cup;
- cakeflour_sifted := 3.5 oz/cup; // The density of flour depends on the
- cakeflour_spooned := 4. oz/cup; // measuring method. "Scooped", or
- cakeflour_scooped := 4.5 oz/cup; // "dip and sweep" refers to dipping a
- flour_sifted := 4. oz/cup; // measure into a bin, and then sweeping
- flour_spooned := 4.25 oz/cup; // the excess off the top. "Spooned"
- flour_scooped := 5. oz/cup; // means to lightly spoon into a measure
- breadflour_sifted := 4.25 oz/cup; // and then sweep the top. Sifted means
- breadflour_spooned := 4.5 oz/cup; // sifting the flour directly into a
- breadflour_scooped := 5.5 oz/cup; // measure and then sweeping the top.
- cornstarch := 120. grams/cup;
- dutchcocoa_sifted := 75. g/cup; // These are for Dutch processed cocoa
- dutchcocoa_spooned := 92. g/cup;
- dutchcocoa_scooped := 95. g/cup;
- cocoa_sifted := 75. g/cup; // These are for nonalkalized cocoa
- cocoa_spooned := 82. g/cup;
- cocoa_scooped := 95. g/cup;
- heavycream := 232. g/cup;
- milk := 242. g/cup;
- sourcream := 242. g/cup;
- molasses := 11.25 oz/cup;
- cornsyrup := 11.5 oz/cup;
- honey := 11.75 oz/cup;
- sugar := 200. g/cup;
- powdered_sugar := 4. oz/cup;
- brownsugar_light := 217. g/cup; // packed
- brownsugar_dark := 239. g/cup;
- baking_powder := 4.6 grams / tsp;
- salt := 6 g / tsp;
- koshersalt := 2.8 g / tsp; // Diamond Crystal salt, from package
- // Note that Morton kosher salt is
- // much denser.
- ethanol := .7893 g/cm^3; // Density of ethanol
- alcohol := ethanol; // For now, density of ethanol
- methanol := .79130 g/cm^3; // Density of methanol
- // Egg weights and volumes for a USA large egg
- egg := 50. grams;
- eggwhite := 30. grams;
- eggyolk := 18.6 grams;
- eggvolume := 3. tablespoons + 1/2 tsp;
- eggwhitevolume := 2. tablespoons;
- eggyolkvolume := 3.5 tsp;
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