Thanks for this detailed work. Can I ask how do you know that a Canadian breakfast cup is 283g? How is this different also to a US cup?And that seems a bit of a high amount for the flour and carrots? When you are saying 75% of carrots is usually standard what do you mean? Do you mean standard for a carrot cake? What do you mean about the pineapple too? Are you talking about the usual carrot cake ingredient proportions?
There were old standards that were set for household cups:
- coffee cup 3 oz
- tea cup 5 oz
- breakfast cup 10 oz
a oz does not fully convert to a gram for gram. 1 oz is roughly 28.25 grams. grams are much more accurate than ounces, that’s why bakers always use metric weight when baking. So we always convert everything in ounces to grams. so you multiply the ounces by 28.25
10 x 28.25 = 282.5
And I just rounded up to 283.
Insofar as the carrot amount in professional baking there is a standard for every baked good. and the standards are set because Baking is based on science. in most cases when you deviate from those standards you’ll have a catastrophic failure. too much of one ingredient can cause a cake to collapse, a cake to be too dry; a cake to crack; a cake to under-bake, etc, Now there is some leeway to deviate in ratios with some ingredients. And change and add ingredients. Carrots contain an extraordinary amount of moisture, it’s a high water vegetable. win anything is cooked it releases its water. With 25% more carrot that could be a significant amount of water. And usually when we measure carrots, we pack the cup, so that is a lot of carrot.
283 g is 2 cups or 2 1/3 cups of flour depending on the way you measure. In the 1970s the standard way to measure flour was to dip the measuring cup into the flour bin, then level it off with a butter knife. With a measuring cup that we use today, this yield 140 g of flour. So this is the equivalent of 2 cups flour.
If the flour is spooned in the measuring cup, and then leveled off, it will yield about 120 g flour. So 283 g would be 2 1/3 cups flour.
If you stir the flour in the bin, gently scoop the flour in, take care not to pack the flour in tight, then level it off, it will be about 140g flour.