You have been looking forward to preparing grandma’s sauce recipe since it is a family heirloom that has been passed down from generation to generation.
It is a recipe that your grandmother prepared, and you have vowed to incorporate it into the meals that your family enjoys eating the most. However, it is of prime importance to know the conversion of ingredients from oz to table spoon to understand how much 2 oz of tomato paste will be.
Where it comes to the ingredient lists of contemporary recipes, we are familiar with the measures of the component that is given, as well as the size of the can when it is applicable.
For instance, 1 can of tomato paste (15 ounces) is a familiar term to us. However, older recipes might only provide the can size, which is not a weight or volume measurement but rather only a name or number.
When you are attempting to make grandma’s traditional recipe for the first time and don’t know how much of an ingredient should be included, or when you are attempting to downsize a recipe meant to feed a crowd and don’t know how to cut a “no. 3 squat” can in half, this can be a particularly challenging endeavor.
Thankfully, there is a method through which these antiquated can sizes can be converted into something that is more easily recognizable.
- A Chart for Converting Can Sizes
In the event that you come across a recipe that doesn’t have the measurements set out, you should think about some often used conversions, both for how much of that canned product to use and how much of it to buy.
Can Size Name WeightVolume
- Picnic
- 10 and a half to 12 ounces.
- 1 1/4 cups
- 12 ounces vacuum
- Twelve ounces
- 1 1/2 cups
- 11 ounces, number one
- 1 1/3 cup
- First place, 16 ounces tall
- 2 cups
- No. 1 square 16 ounces
- 2 cups
Number Two: one pound and four ounces, or - 1 pint 2 fluid ounces
- 2 1/2 cups
- Number 2 1/2 One pound and Thirteen Ounces
- 3 1/2 cups
- No. 2 1/2 square 31 ounces
- scant 4 cups
- No. 3 51 ounces
- 5 3/4 cups
- No. 3 squat 23 ounces
- 2 3/4 cups
- The fifth spot, 56 ounces
- 7 1/3 cups
- No. 10
- Six pounds, six ounces up to seven pounds, five ounces
- 12 cups
- No. 300
- about 14 and 16 ounces
- 1 3/4 cups
- No. 303
- about 16 and 17 ounces
- 2 cups
- A Chart for Converting Jar Sizes
The term “canned” refers to the jars that you use to preserve your own fruits and vegetables. If you are looking at an old canning recipe, it may include the size of the jars that should be used.
Jars exist in a variety of sizes, all of which already reference the product’s volume and weight, so this makes them slightly less perplexing than the can sizes. Mason jars were the containers of choice for older recipes, even though there may now be more aesthetically pleasing jars available.
- Jar Size Weight Volume
- Jar of Jelly, Four Ounces
- 1/2 cup
Jar of Jelly, 8 fluid ounces
- 1 cup
Jar of Jelly, Twelve Ounces
- 1 1/2 cups
8 ounces equal a half pint.
- 1 cup
16 ounces equal one pint.
- 2 cups
A pint and a half is equal to 24 ounces and three cups.
- Pint-and-Three-Quarters
- 1470 milliliters
- 3 1/2 cups
- Quart 32 ounces 4 cups
- A half gallon is equal to 64 ounces.
- 8 cups
- 128 ounces in a gallon
- 16 cups
- Jar for storing items, 14 ounces
- 1 3/4 cups
- Container with a capacity of 38 ounces or 4.75 cups
Miscellaneous Size Conversions
There is a good chance that everyone of us has come across a recipe that has peculiar or ambiguous ingredient measurements, or possibly even none at all. To help fill in the blanks, you can use some fundamental conversions.
Ingredient Weight and Volume
Weight Volume
Depending on the size, a baby food jar contains between 3 1/2 and 8 ounces.
15 ounces of sweetened condensed milk
1 1/3 cups
Evaporated milk
12 milliliters
2/3 cup
Evaporated milk
14 and a half ounces
1 2/3 cups
Frozen juice concentrate
12 milliliters
3/4 cup
The Evolution of Can Sizes
It is helpful to have some background knowledge on the canning industry in order to answer the question of how many cups are required to fit in a can. According to the information provided in A.W.
Becker’s guidebook titled Canning and How to Use Canned Foods, Both K.G. and Betting Even though there are (or were) some can sizes that were deemed standard, the National Canners Association (which is now called the Food Products Association) notes that these dimensions aren’t based on any unit of volume or other regulations, which may cause confusion for home chefs.
The Canners Association provided an explanation for how the mystery numbers are assigned to cans, stating that the can industry in the United States uses two numbers to define the dimensions of cylindrical cans.
These numbers are the diameter and the height. The authors of the guidebook bemoaned the lack of foresight displayed by the canning industry, saying things such as, “The regular No.
2 can is too large for peas, corn, and beans in amount for the average family to use at one time, and the unused part is not as attractive when reheated. The No. 3 can of tomatoes is likewise an anomaly though the objection is not as strong as for the No. 2.
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