What you can use for
For 1 cup, you can use:
Measuring
Cups and Spoons
A coffee cup.
A pint jar.
There are 2 cups in a pint.
For 1 cup, make a line
halfway up on the jar.
Use paint or fingernail polish.
A peanut butter jar.
2
Some peanut butter jars have
l or 2 cups marked on them.
Any jar or can.
There are 16 tablespoons in a cup.
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Measure 16 tablespoons of water
into a jar or can.
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This makes l cup.
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Mark it with paint or fingernail polish.
If you do not have them,
you may want to get some.
Or, use something you already have .
For measuring cups:
• coffee cup
• jars or cans
Evelyn F. Crayton
Extension Foods And Nutrition Specialist
Alabama Cooperative Extension Service
Auburn University, Alabama 36849-5621
Originally prepared by Virginia H. Goebel, Home Economist-EFNEP Program Analyst,
and Fariss Prickett, formerly 4-H Specialist- Foods And Nutrition.
Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work in agriculture and home economics, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914,
in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agricuhure. The Alabama Cooperative Extension Seivice, Auburn Univeraity, Ann
E. Thompson, Director, offers educational programs and materials to all people without regard to race, color, national origin,
sex, age, or handicap and is an equal opportunity employer.
These are measuring cups and spoons.
They are good to use.
UPS, 11M03, 5:92, HE-94
For measuring spoons:
•a teaspoon
• a tablespoon
Circular HE-94
Alabama Cooperative Extension Service
Auburn University, Alabama 36849-5612
Put your spoon on each of these spoons.
This spoon makes 1 teaspoon.
See which spoon is most like yours.
This spoon makes 1 tablespoon.
This spoon makes 1 tablespoon.
Measure 1 teaspoon like this.
Round this spoonful just a little .
Don't heap it.
If your recipe calls for 1 tablespoon,
you can use 3 teaspoons.
They are the same amount.
Measure 1 tablespoon like this.
Measure 1 tablespoon like this.
Heap this spoonful os much as you con.
Round this spoonful just o little.
Don't heap it.