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[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

It comes in sticks?

Some recipes here need "a stick of butter" as an ingredient. Can someone please tell me how much a stick of butter weighs? (I couldn't find it on that "conversion site")

Thanks

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[ancalime8301]

A stick of butter is approximately equal to one cup of butter... and I *think* it would be about equivalent to one quarter of a pound, since a box of butter generally is one pound, and there's four sticks in a box. :P

Hopefully that's enough to help you out, anyway. ;)

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

Is that a metric pound or a US pound?

[ancalime8301]

US. Sorry, I forgot to specify. :p

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

You almost need a college degree to work out these recipes, with all those different measurements :)

Thank you very much

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

Sorry to butt in, but 1 stick of butter is US measurement 1/2 cup not 1 cup. Just thought I'd slip in here and head off any cooking disasters!

*hugs*

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

Thanks, so it's 1/2 a cup and that's 115 grams, so the information on rabidsamfan's box was correct (113 grams).

This is getting complicated :)

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

Back in the 70s, when I was in high school, there was a movement to convert the United States to metric. Children were taught the metric system in school and things started appearing on store shelves in metric units. Unfortunately, the idea was not very popular and eventually the idea was scrapped. It's a shame, really, since it would make things easier in many ways, recipes being a good example. The only legacy of those days still remaining is supermarket packaging with both US Standard and Metric measurements listed.

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

It's too bad that didn't work out. Would be easier for me at least :)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

113 grams -- if the information on my box is correct anyway.

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Part of the problem is that US recipes tend to be measured in volume, not weight, so there's a little variation. (and the conversion tables tend to round up or down, too...)

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

I just have to try out the recipes and see what needs changing (a bit).

And it is strange for me to see things measured in volume (like a cup of carrots I saw in a recipe). Basically we use volume (I don't now if this is the right word) for anything liquid and weight for anything solid (with some exceptions). But I'll get used to the US method too.

[xclairedelune.livejournal.com]

OMG
Let me stick my two pence (er cents) in...

This will help no one, but let me add that about 10 years ago my son-in-law got me a wonderful British Tea cookbook and with it, he gave me a wonderful plastic measuring cup which gave fluid ounces, (the other) ounces, grams, and all the other things that make our lives miserable...it didn't matter what silly-ass measurements the recipe called for, this cup had it. I'm looking at it to get an idea who made it, but the only manufacturer designator is "made in England"..like I said, this will not help you, except to let you know that such a measuring cup exists. I use is all the time for Indian cooking which also uses Metric,uh, things....

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

Actually, it did help.

I have a measuring cup (which I only use for measuring fluids). After reading your answer I had a good look at it, and besides (centi-)liters it also shows cups, pints and fluid ounces! I've had that cup for a few years now, and I just never noticed/registered that fact before. How daft is that?

So, thank you!