For Good Baking, Measuring Accurately

Making crackers is easy, and it can be done with very few pieces of special equipment. That said, this is the part of the book where I’ll get up on a soapbox and tell you the one thing I think you absolutely must have in your kitchen: a digital scale.

I do give both volume (cups) and weight (in grams, which is more accurate than ounces) measurements for ingredients in this book, but I strongly recommend you forgo the measuring cups for a digital scale. Why? Because 1 cup of flour can weigh between 115 to 155 grams depending on how compacted the flour is, relative humidity of the room, and how you put the flour in the cup.