Dr. Oetker cookery book

Bear with me on this one folks,

I bought the Dr Oetker baking book 'German Baking Today' (a translation of Backen Macht Freude) from Hugendubel bookshop, salvatorplatz, and was very excited. I was going to make my own German stylee cakes!

Three or four disasters later I threw the book on the 'to be thrown out' pile and forgot about it. I couldn't understand why everything was coming out just like concrete, although all the recipes did seem to use a huge amount of flour, so today having nothing better to do and a new set of digital kitchen scales to play with I did a bit of weighing and measuring and discovered the problem.

The book has ingredients listed in grams, pounds and ounces and cups, which makes it a bit confusing to follow, obviously you should never mix systems but I assumed that using any one system would produce similar results. I was wrong - the instructions using American cup measures give you around DOUBLE the amount of flour than is right for the recipes. so..

If buying this book in the English don't believe what it says when following the instructions using cup measures.

see. I got there in the end!

Sorry, I don't understand. The book lists measurements in American/English measurements or in German/Metric system measurements?

both.

like this.

300g/ 10 oz /(3 cups) plain (all purpose flour)
300ml / 10 fl oz (1 1/4 cups) buttermilk

My experience so far is that only the metric will give you a recipe that works.