Cups Of Flour In Pound

How Many Cups in One Pound of Flour?

| Final update: 06 April 2022

If you're looking to find out how many cups there are in a pound of all-purpose flour, bread flour, cake flour, pastry flour or whole-wheat flour, look no further. Annotation that your measurement will depend upon the type of flour you're using because of the varying densities of dissimilar flour types.

1 pound of all-purpose flour contains around 3 ⅔ cups.
1 pound of bread flour contains approximately 3 ½ cups.
ane pound of cake flour contains around 4 cups.
one pound of pastry flour contains effectually 4 ¼ cups.

These measurements assume you're using the traditional method of measuring flour. This involves spooning the flour into your measuring cup, without compacting information technology, and levelling it off with a knife. Scooping the flour from your jar or bag with the measuring cup may requite you a unlike measurement. Estimates are for a standard US cup.

We've prepare out a serial of pound to cup measurements for dissimilar types of flour in reference tables below. If you're looking to catechumen a very specific number of pounds to cups, you can utilise our handy pounds and cups converter.

Cups in a pound of all purpose flour

Let'south take a look at the measurements for each blazon of flour. You may wish to know that we also have an article looking at pounds and cups of sugar.

Cups in a pound of all purpose flour

Pounds of Flour	Cups (United states)
one/2 lb	i.81 cups
1 lb	3.62 cups
2 lb	vii.24 cups
v lb	18.1 cups
10 lb	36.2 cups

Cups in a pound of breadstuff flour

Pounds of Flour	Cups (U.s.a.)
1/two lb	one.75 cups
1 lb	3.49 cups
2 lb	six.98 cups
5 lb	17.45 cups
x lb	34.nine cups

Cups in a pound of cake flour

Pounds of Flour	Cups (US)
1/2 lb	one.99 cups
1 lb	3.98 cups
2 lb	7.96 cups
five lb	xix.nine cups
10 lb	39.8 cups

Cups in a pound of pastry flour

Pounds of Flour	Cups (US)
1/2 lb	2.xiv cups
ane lb	4.28 cups
2 lb	eight.56 cups
5 lb	21.4 cups
10 lb	42.8 cups

Cups in a pound of whole-wheat flour

Pounds of Flour	Cups (US)
one/two lb	2.01 cups
ane lb	4.01 cups
2 lb	8.02 cups
v lb	20.05 cups
10 lb	40.1 cups

Flour densities and conversions were sourced from: The Cake Bible (Rose Levy Beranbaum, 1988), Mod Domestic and the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations.

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