Cups to grams / Vegetable shortening
How many grams is half a cup of vegetable shortening?
Half a cup of vegetable shortening (shortening) weighs
103g
That's 3.6oz. In a 250ml metric cup it's 108g.
This uses the US cup, the size American recipes mean. Half a cup is 118ml by volume.
Trex and Cookeen are the common UK equivalents.
Other amounts of vegetable shortening
Where these numbers come from
USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, food 04615: “Shortening, vegetable, household, composite”. USDA lists these household measures for it:
- 1 tbsp = 12.8g
- 1 cup = 205g
Fractions of a cup are the cup weight scaled down. The teaspoon is a third of the tablespoon. Metric-cup figures assume a 250ml cup, and Australian tablespoons hold 20ml. Weights under 10g are rounded to 0.1g, everything else to the nearest gram. Full source list.