= United Kingdom In the United Kingdom the standard cup was set at 10 imperial fluid ounces, or half an imperial pint. The cup was rarely used in practice, as historically most kitchens tended to be equipped with scales and ingredients were measured by weight, rather than volume. A related measure, the gill (5 fluid ounces, or half an imperial cup), was commonly used in older cookbooks for liquids, and may still be used (in fractions of 1/4, 1/5 and 1/6) for spirits. International Similar units in other languages and cultures are sometimes translated "cup", usually with various values around to of a litre. Latin American cup In Latin America, the amount of a "cup" () varies from country to country, using a cup of 200ml, 250ml, and the US legal or customary amount. Japanese cup The traditional Japanese unit equated with a "cup" size is the gō, legally equated with litres (≈180.4 ml) in 1891, and is still used for reckoning amounts of rice and sake. The Japanese later defined a "cup" as 200 ml. Russian cup The traditional Russian measurement system included two cup sizes, one of which, the "charka" (cup proper), was usually used for alcoholic drinks and measured , while another, "stakan" ("glass") was twice as big at and used for other liquids. Since metrication, the charka was informally redefined as 100 ml, acquiring a new name of "stopka" (related to the traditional Russian measurement unit "stopa"), while there are currently two widely used glass sizes of 250 and 200 ml. Dry measure In Europe, recipes normally weigh non-liquid ingredients in grams rather than measuring volume. For example, where an American recipe might specify "1 cup of sugar and 2 cups of milk", a European recipe might specify "200 g sugar and 500 ml of milk". A precise conversion between the two measures takes into account the density of the ingredients, and some recipes specify both weight and volume to facilitate this conversion. Many European measuring cups have markings that indicate the weight of common ingredients for a given volume. See also Cooking weights and measures Notes References Units of volume Customary units of measurement in the United States Imperial units Metricated units Alcohol measurement Cooking weights and measures