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The teacup is a traditional measurement unit for cooking in the United Kingdom. It is named after a typical teacup. 1 teacup is 5 British imperial fluid ounces.
Three other British measurement units for cooking are related to the teacup: the breakfast cup (8 British imperial fluid ounces), the cup (6 British imperial fluid ounces), and the coffee cup (21⁄2 British imperial fluid ounces).
| 1 teacup | = | 5⁄8 | breakfast cup |
| = | 5⁄6 | cup | |
| = | 2 | coffee cups | |
| = | 5 | British imperial fluid ounces | |
| = | 1⁄4 | British imperial pint | |
| = | 1⁄8 | British imperial quart | |
| = | 1⁄32 | British imperial gallon | |
| = | 10 | UK tablespoons | |
| = | 40 | UK teaspoons | |
| ≈ | 3⁄5 | US customary cup | |
| ≈ | 44⁄5 | US customary fluid ounces | |
| ≈ | 142·07 | millilitres |
All four units are the traditional British equivalence of the US customary cup and the metric cup, used in situations where a US cook would use the US customary cup and a metric cook the metric cup. Which of those four units is to be used depends on the quantity or volume of the ingredient. British cookery books and recipes from the pre-metrication days commonly use two or more of the aforesaid units simultaneously: the same recipe may call for a ‘breakfastcupful’ of one ingredient and a ‘cupful’, ‘teacupful’, or ‘coffeecupful’ of another ingredient. Unlike the US customary cup and the metric cup, the British breakfast cup, cup, teacup, and coffee cup are not measuring cups: they are simply everyday drinking vessels commonly found in British households and typically having a capacity of 8 British imperial fluid ounces, 6 British imperial fluid ounces, 5 British imperial fluid ounces, and 21⁄2 British imperial fluid ounces, respectively.
See also
References
- ‘Consuming Interest’, Elizabeth David, The Spectator, 15 March, 1963
- ‘Consuming Interest’, Elizabeth David, The Spectator, 15 March, 1963
- ‘Tea Making, My Experiments ’, chapter XVII, page 456, volume IIIB, The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton (1930)
- Page 665, Enquire Within upon Everything (1894)
- ‘Consuming Interest’, Elizabeth David, The Spectator, 15 March, 1963