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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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[anotherslashfan]

Eyeball it?
Or google for some cup-volume conversion?
I'm from Germany, so we usually use metric measurements, but as far as I know, being precise when measuring - at least when it comes to baking - is overrated anyway. If you have a description of what the texture of your mix should be like, just try and go with that?

[pensnest]

Friends lists are better than Google sometimes (see above)!

I'd always heard that baking requires precision, whereas cooking requires flair. It seems so to me, since I am a casual sort of person and can cook just fine, whereas baking mostly escapes me. But this year, I am determined to try it.

[anotherslashfan]

Ahaha, yes, topaz119 made a more useful suggestion ^^ Which I didn't see before my comment was posted...

In any case, I agree that successful baking seems to often rely on one knowing a recipe's "secret". Might not just be precise measurements; sometimes it's timing, temperature, or one mistake you just shouldn't make ^^. Cooking's more forgiving that way.

[pensnest]

I suspect I don't bake often enough to get good at it. You have a good point there about the 'secret' of the recipe.