Hi ~

I want to try Steady2Hands' strawberry cake recipe, which calls for a 1/2 pint of frozen strawberries.

I have a huge bag of Dole frozen strawberries in the freezer and need to know how much a pint of frozen strawberries weighs.

Googling yielded vastly different answers (from 8 ounces per pint to 16 ounces per pint).

I know the saying, "A pint's a pound the world around" but I would really ADORE somebody if they looked in their freezer for a package of frozen strawberries that has both the amount by volume and the weight so I know fo' sho' how much to add to the recipe.

Thanks bunches!!
Sherri

Dunno, but "A pint's a pound the world around" only applies to a few things (milk, water, eggs)

Get out a measuring cup and measure out 8 ounces volume of frozen strawberries.

That saying refers to liquid measurements.

For anybody's future reference, I went with 10 ounces of frozen strawberries by weight = 1 pint. The strawberry cake recipe turned out fine. I haven't tasted it yet but it looks and smells wonderful, and it baked darn near perfectly level.

Here's the recipe if anyone is interested: http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-4403-Strawberry-Cake.html

~ Sherri

What's confusing, Mike? Ounces can refer to volume or weight. (Eight ounces of feathers take up a lot more volume than eight ounces of cast iron.)

Because only 4 strawberries fit in a one-cup dry measuring cup, I was relatively sure the recipe called for the berries by weight, not by volume. 8 ounces of strawberries by volume was vastly less than 8 ounces of strawberries by weight.

And actually, I should have gone by 12 ounces of strawberries by weight = 1 pint = 3 1/2 cups by volume...but using just 10 ounces instead of 12 in the recipe (I doubled it) worked just dandy.

Well, "pint" is definitely volume, not weight. One pint of water weighs 16 oz, not 12 and i 4 cups by volume. I'm sure "pint" in a strawberry recipe refers to the containers they come in at the store... which doesn't help you Seems like you got it figured out tho.

Yes, but the recipe called for 1/2 a pint, and I have a 3 pound bag, hence my asking how much a pint of strawberries weighs. I hate measuring items such as that by volume - and with it being a recipe that I've never made before, I wanted precision.

I love my digital weighing scales!

And my measuring jugs and spoons for liquids, it's so simple!

Cups of this and that bug me it's seems a very inaccurate way to measure things in scientific subject i.e. baking!

Solids should be weighed and liquids measured IMHO.

Glad you figured it out though!