I know how frustrating cooking in the UK is when you've been used to the ways of the weights and measurements of the US. I found this site on line and it'll convert most of them over, so if you're having trouble with an UK recipe with your US utensils:
http://www.onlineconversion.com/Also has distance, speed, volume,computer, date, power, energy, desity, force, pressure, frequency and more other conversions that you'd like to know