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I have a recipe for a mascarpone substitute. How much does that recipe make? I need a pound's worth, so I don't know if that will be a enough or is too much.

Here is the recipe:

1 16 oz block of cream cheese,
1/2 cup sour cream,
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream,

Blend until smooth

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Your end result if you follow that recipe would weigh approximately 22 ounces, or 1 pound 6 ounces, or 1.375 pounds. (There are 16 ounces in a pound. Fluid ounce and ounce as a unit of weight are not exactly the same thing, but pretty darn close considering the ingredients you are working with; there are 8 fluid ounces in an American "cup", a "fluid ounce" of water weighs one ounce)

In the future if you have questions like this with other ingredients (particularly how much does a volumetric measurement [1 cup, or 1 Tablespoon] of an ingredient weigh), you might find this chart helpful: Master Weight Chart

Maybe this will help too: To make 1 pound of your recipe you would need 330g of Cream Cheese, 82g of Sour Cream and 41g of Whipping Cream.

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    +1 for figuring out what was being asked (and for providing a good answer).
    – Carey Gregory
    Commented Dec 27, 2013 at 5:13
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    It's worth noting that 82ml is almost exactly 1/3 of a metric cup, and 41ml is almost exactly 1/6 of a metric cup. If that's any help.
    – Dawood ibn Kareem
    Commented Dec 27, 2013 at 5:52
  • In the US, a fluid ounce of water doesn't weigh an ounce. The US uses the Queen Anne fluid ounce, which is the volume of an ounce of wine, not water -- and wine is less dense than water. So a US fluid ounce of water weighs 1.04 ounces. In the UK, a fluid ounce of water does weigh an ounce.
    – Mike Scott
    Commented Dec 27, 2013 at 12:15
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    @MikeScott, Ok, whatever. An milliliter of heavy whipping cream doesn't weigh exactly a gram either. She's working with dairy products, not anthrax.
    – Jolenealaska ♦
    Commented Dec 27, 2013 at 12:47

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