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Written alongside the conversion charts, and grounded in the same published dataset.
Three to start with. Each one comes out of a question the conversion charts raise but cannot answer on their own.
One cup of flour is not one cup of flour. Here is how much the measuring method actually changes, and what it does to a dough.
2 September 2026
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