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<Snipped quote by The Mad Hatter>

"1 cup" is an American customary unit equating to 8 fluid ounces by volume.

Any and all baking should happen by weight, because the customary system is not precise enough to measure out the exact ratios needed to achieve the chemical reactions happening in dough to the right quantities. So I'd buy a cheap $12 kitchen scale off Amazon and find recipes that weight themselves out in grams instead.
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I have a kitchen scale and weigh my stuff pretty well [s]though a lot of it gets measured by eye and heart instead of scale because of experience[/s]. I've trained as a pastry chef and I've got a whole cupboard full of baking utilities and usually go with recipes I understand, but a few I've come by that I've really wanted to try I could only find in american measurements and they just confuse the hell out of me.