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[pensnest]

How does one measure 3/4 cup butter without going mad?

Seriously. I don't use cup measurements often, but butter measured in a cup sounds ridiculous. What do I do?

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I once read a full page on a US baking site about how to properly measure flour without it settling and messing up your volume measurement, at the end of which she suggested that to test that you were doing it right, you should weigh your cup of flour and it should be X grams.

The reason most US recipes I like get tranferred to LJ is that I translate all stupid cup measures into weights. Particularly baffled by things like a cup of chopped veg. Why?

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[pensnest]

at the end of which she suggested that to test that you were doing it right, you should weigh your cup of flour and it should be X grams.

GAH!!!

At least you *can* put chopped veg in a cup, though it could lead to an enormous variety in actual quantity of veg, depending on how finely you chop.

Butter? Nah.

Cup measures are great for some things, but daft for others.