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Use a measuring spoon or measuring cup in measuring dry ingredients.
2. Deep and sweep method. This is the most common way of measuring dry ingredients. It requires dipping your measuring cup into the dry ingredient with the cup overflowing. Take the back of the knife or a flat spoon handle and sweep the excess across and off of the measuring cup.
3. Spoon and sweep method. Some recommend using spoon in filling up the measuring cup with dry ingredients before sweeping the overflow.
THINGS TO REMEMBER:
Read the list of ingredients and corresponding instructions to give you a clue on how to measure the ingredients.
"1 cup of flour, sifted" means dipping and scooping 1 cup of flour and then sifting it.Â
"1 cup of sifted flour" means sifting flour and then measuring out 1 cup.
"1/2 cup of packed brown sugar" means compressing the brown sugar into the 1/2 cup measuring cup rather than scooping out 1/2 cup of brown sugar and then packing it down.
DASHES AND PINCHES:
This is way smaller quantity; you can use the thumb and point finger
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