(no subject)

[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?

Comments

[chalcopyrite]

I feel your pain. (Most of my recipes/cookbooks being American in origin.) One pound of butter is 2 cups, so a) 3/4 c. is 6oz, as Topaz already said, and b) when I get butter (one pound block), I mark it with a knife roughly into quarters, so I have more-or-less half cups ready to go.

[pensnest]

Do you get butter in pounds where you are? Ours has been metrificated for quite a while - it *looks* like 8oz, but I think it's 250g, which is a bit more.

[chalcopyrite]

The labelling is metric, but butter still comes by the 454 grams. wry g I'm going to have to check the smaller blocks now, though, to see if they're 227g or 250g!

[pensnest]

Damn it, now I'm going to have to go downstairs and see how big my butter blocks are!

250g, with markings to divide it into five sections.

[chalcopyrite]

I did not mean to cause midnight butter-measuring crises! But now you know for certain: yay? *g*

I had to check in the supermarket today -- the smaller blocks here are indeed 227g. So the matter of international butter measurements has gotten even more complicated, and Chris' face sums up my feelings completely!