What your ingredients are called elsewhere
Gather · Updated 29 July 2026
A recipe written somewhere else will quietly use words you don't. Some are
obvious enough to guess — aubergine is clearly a vegetable. Others
aren't: bicarbonate of soda and baking powder are not the same thing,
and swapping one for the other will flatten a cake.
These are the alternative names Gather's ingredient catalog recognises. They
come from the same list the apps use to convert measurements offline, so if a
name is here, typing it into the
converter will find the right
ingredient.
Mostly British, Australian, Irish and Indian English against the American
names most recipe sites default to.
Quebec French alongside the names a recipe from France would use.
European Portuguese alongside the Brazilian names.
Names aren't the only thing that shifts
Cup sizes move too. A cup is 240 ml in the United States, 250 ml in the UK,
Canada and New Zealand, and 200 ml in Japan — and Australia pairs the 250 ml
cup with a 20 ml tablespoon, the only one of its size. The
converter lets you pick the
standard a recipe was written in.
And a correctly named, correctly sized cup still isn't a reliable quantity:
see why
a cup of flour isn't a cup of flour.
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