Hi Fairday and welcome!

I´m a newbie too and your question about the size of a "cup" sounds very familiar to me... That´s an US system of measuring things and here in Europe we use gramms and kilogramms to measure things. Well, if you know your way around with the metric system, go to this page:

http://www.about-bread.net/measures.html


Here you´ll find everything you need...

Love
Cat