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A closer look at densities

This is a reference extract from ingredient-densities.csv, a 18-row dataset with the columns ingredient, grams_per_cup, kind. The figures below are copied directly from the file; nothing here is estimated or interpolated.

Provenance recorded in the dataset: Ingredient density reference: grams per US customary cup. DERIVED, and re-checkable by recomputation. Every value in this file was extracted verbatim 2026-08-04 from the source of the ingredientcalc D package in this repository

ingredient: water | grams_per_cup: 236.588 | kind: reference

ingredient: milk | grams_per_cup: 244.0 | kind: liquid

ingredient: all_purpose_flour | grams_per_cup: 120.0 | kind: flour

ingredient: bread_flour | grams_per_cup: 127.0 | kind: flour

ingredient: cake_flour | grams_per_cup: 114.0 | kind: flour

ingredient: whole_wheat_flour | grams_per_cup: 120.0 | kind: flour

The full table, with the remaining 12 rows and an interactive calculator built on it, is at more on closer look at densities, see ingredientcalculator.com