MEASURING INGREDIENTS
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Measuring
Ingredients
How to Measure
the Ingredients
For the best possible results every time you bake bread, it is important that you measure accurately. Dry
ingredients such as flour and sugar need to be measured in “nested” measuring cups of the type that fit
inside each other. They generally come in 1/4, 1/3, and 1 cup increments.
Liquid measuring cups are usually made of transparent glass or plastic with lines marking the gradations.
The Zojirushi Home Bakery comes equipped with a measuring cup and spoon in the storage
compartment at the top left of the machine. USE THE MEASURING CUP FOR LIQUIDS ONLY; it
measure over 1-1/3 cups when filled to the very brim. The measuring spoon has a small and large side.
The large side measure tablespoon to top: it measure 1/2 tablespoon or 1-1/2 teaspoons to the halfway
mark on that side. The smaller side of the measuring spoon measures 1 teaspoon to the top and 1/2
teaspoon to the half mark.
HOW TO MEASURE THE INGREDIENTS
The liquid should be poured into the cup
while the cup is on a flat surface and
measured at eye level.
Liquid Ingredients:
Dry Ingredients:
1. Spoon the dry ingredients into
the cup, filling it to overflow.
Do not press or shake down.
2. Level by sweeping off the
excess with the straight edge
of a knife.
3. To measure 3/4 cup flour, for
example, fill and level the 1/2
and the 1/4 “nested”
measuring cups. Spices and
small amounts of dry and
liquid ingredients are
measured in our measuring
spoon. Be sure to level off the
same way.
Zojirushi liquid measuring cup
Standard liquid measuring cup
Measuring spoon
“Nested” Measuring cup