Converting grams to cups. Help!

Found a recipe that sounds good. The measurements are partly in grams (dry) and partly in cups (liquid). I found a converter that shows 510 grams of flour works out to 4 1/4 cups. Then there is another 170 grams of buckwheat flour. This recipe makes 12 scones. 5 cups of flour? That sounds so wrong. The liquid measure is 1 1/2 cups so that fits the amount of flour but wouldn't that amount of flour make dozens of scones?

Our scones call for 2 cups of flour to 1/2 cup of milk. It makes about a dozen or so scones. So something isn't adding up over there... Maybe it means 12 dozen instead of 12 scones?

How about forgetting the conversion and just make these instead?

There are 28 grams per oz. Or 28 grams equals 0.125 US cups.
Another way is for volume one cup US is 236.6 ml.(cc)So 510 grams works out to . To 18 oz. Weight measure. If using food scale. Which is more accurate using scale especially for dry measure. So for your 510 grams should be 21/4 Us cups.
So for buckwheat is 5.7 oz. US or 0.72 cups I make it one cup. Or 11.5 tbsp. (11 1/2 Tbsp). Hope this helps.

Silverspoon said:

How about forgetting the conversion and just make these instead?.

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Yum!

Flower said:

There are 28 grams per oz. Or 28 grams equals 0.125 US cups.
Another way is for volume one cup US is 236.6 ml.(cc)So 510 grams works out to . To 18 oz. Weight measure. If using food scale. Which is more accurate using scale especially for dry measure. So for your 510 grams should be 21/4 Us cups.
So for buckwheat is 5.7 oz. US or 0.72 cups I make it one cup. Or 11.5 tbsp. (11 1/2 Tbsp). Hope this helps..

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See, that makes more sense to get 2 1/2 cups. I don't have a food scale, just measuring cups. I'm kind of stuck when someone splits the measurements between grams for dry measure and cups for liquid. Why not do all cups or all grams and liters?
But then, on this recipe, they're calling for 1 1/2 cups of liquid.
Maybe I'll just use one of my standard savings recipes and sub in the buckwheat flour.

There are 125 grams of all purpose flour to a cup. This is a cup of sifted flour, not packed. Which is why the grams are actually more exact than cups ever will be. 120 grans of buckwheat flour to a cup. Again, sifted.
Honestly, you should get an electronic kitchen scale and use it instead of cups. It's a lot more precise and once you weigh things, you don't have all those cups to clean after because you can zero the scale before you add something else (tare).