cup of flour

if you ever end up grinding your own grain,
or if you make bread from store got flour often enough,
then you might end up noticing that a cup of flour is often not the same as other cups of flour,
the weight can change lots depending on all kinds of things,
and it is the weight that matters when baking or other cooking,

recipes form england use weight
ones from the USA use cups (volume)

and this is why you will see recipes that say something like 5 1/2 to 6 cups, and then they tell you how to check if you have the correct amount,
but if you read cookbooks from england they will say things like "use 2.3 pounds of flour"
there is no guessing when you use weight.

it was really the way the USA was populated and settled that got the volume measurements popular here,
first by ship, and then by wagon.
scales are heavy and bulky,
a cup is small and light, and is usually close enough,
so in all the moving around, the cup ended up getting used enough to change the way things are cooked here.

but where you find this out is when you start grinding your own grain
and you have things you bake turn out so bad that you can't really eat them,
it is all super dependent on how fine you grind things,
but if you use weight in your recipes, then everything gets lots more easy,

I suggest to weigh some cups of store got flour to convert to weight before you start grinding your own grain,

by the way, anyone know the weight of 2/3 cup store got chickpea flower ?
I forgot to measure when I still had some.