Cups to grams / Vegetable shortening
How many grams is a quarter cup of vegetable shortening?
A quarter cup of vegetable shortening (shortening) weighs
51g
That's 1.8oz. In a 250ml metric cup it's 54g.
This uses the US cup, the size American recipes mean. A quarter cup is 59ml 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.