How big is a "cup" when making ice cream?

[valmarg]

I find it depends whether you use American or Australian cups. I understand Australian are larger than American.

I really do find 'cups' irritating.

Even more irritating is the use of metric measures. I am a daft old biddy brought up on imperial measures. I do not do grams, kilos and litres. All the recipe books and cooking magazines are metric. That is why I don't buy them.

valmarg

[rpt]

Cups are very irritating - a very imprecise way to measure dry ingredients such as flour. Also hate imperial - all those fractions are hard work. Just my opinion.

Richard.

[Alison]

Despite being brought up in a so called metric age I still prefer imperial but can quite happily convert between in my head. This confused OH who although older than me doesn't do ounces at all and gets annoyed that I've changed the setting on the scales again

[Hilary B]

I'll use whatever is going, but if a recipe is all in 'cups' it is probably American (or possibly Australian), and a cup is half an American pint, which will be 8 American Fluid Ounces, but American fluid ounces are bigger than British ones, so if you haven't got a Tala measure (I've used one often) you can either assume that you can get away with UK cups, or swear about it!
BTW, the exact measure of yeast to flour in bread is not normally critical, if you use a lot too much the bread might taste of it, in a bread machine an excess can make life unduly exciting, but otherwise.. a bit short and it will be slow to rise, that is about all.