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The coffee cup is a traditional measurement unit for cooking in the United Kingdom. It is named after a small cup for the after‑dinner coffee served to aid digestion (a demi-tasse). 1 coffee cup is 21⁄2 British imperial fluid ounces.

Three other British measurement units for cooking are related to the coffee cup: the breakfast cup (8 British imperial fluid ounces), the cup (6 British imperial fluid ounces), and the teacup (5 British imperial fluid ounces).

1 coffee cup	=	5⁄16	breakfast cup
	=	5⁄12	cup
	=	1⁄2	teacup
	=	21⁄2	imperial fluid ounces
	=	1⁄8	British imperial pint
	=	1⁄16	British imperial quart
	=	1⁄64	British imperial gallon
	=	5	UK tablespoons
	=	20	UK teaspoons
	≈	0·3	US customary cup
	≈	22⁄5	US customary fluid ounces
	≈	71·03	millilitres

All four units are the traditional British equivalence of the US customary cup and the metric cup, used in situations where a US cook would use the US customary cup and a metric cook the metric cup. Which of those four units is to be used depends on the quantity or volume of the ingredient. British cookery books and recipes from the pre-metrication days commonly use two or more of the aforesaid units simultaneously: the same recipe may call for a ‘breakfastcupful’ of one ingredient and a ‘cupful’, ‘teacupful’, or ‘coffeecupful’ of another ingredient. Unlike the US customary cup and the metric cup, the British breakfast cup, cup, teacup, and coffee cup are not measuring cups: they are simply everyday drinking vessels commonly found in British households and typically having a capacity of 8 British imperial fluid ounces, 6 British imperial fluid ounces, 5 British imperial fluid ounces, and 21⁄2 British imperial fluid ounces, respectively.

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