recipe conversions

My guess is that they mean 6 oz by weight. It's pretty much just the U.S. that uses measuring cups for dry ingredients. Self-rising, I would think they mean something like Bisquick, does the recipe have any other leavening in it? It's been a while since I've been to England, but I think caster sugar is powdered sugar (confectioners sugar, 10x sugar). Demerara sugar is the coarse brown crystals like "sugar in the raw".

[m brown]

self rising flour can be purchased in the southern states of america.other wise, add 1 TBL of baking powder and a half tsp. of salt to 2 cups ap flour and 2 tbl corn starch or 2 cups cake flour. I used these measurments for southern biscuits the other nite and it worked.
one cup of flour sifted and leveled equals about 4 1/2 oz.


[This message has been edited by m brown (edited December 22, 1999).]

I'm trying to make a pudding from an English cookbook. When it says, for example, "6 oz. of self-rising flour", is that 3/4 cup or some other weight measure (and what is our equivalent?) Also, what is caster sugar and demara sugar? Thanks.