Just Need to Know please?

Am having fun looking at the recipes and drooling, but need to know exactly
how much a stick of butter weighs....we don't have them here.

nospam...

A quarter of a pound, or 4 ounces, IIRC :o)

Query number 2.....what is 2.66 c of chocolate? When used in a recipe over
here 'c' means cup...but...how on earth does one measure 2.66 cups?? Must
be something arcane!

nospam...

I dunno!

Methinks I'd just say NUTS! and use 3 1/2 cups!

oh, oh.... I forgot....is sweet butter just ordinary butter, or some kind of
special butter?

nospam...

It's just ordinary butter, and sometimes it's called 'creamery butter'

Which begs the question...is there in fact a product called sour butter?

nospam...

Not that I am aware of. There is just unsalted and salted butter, I
believe.

So many questions and such a short life!
Di.....

Val Adams...

well, I'll take a shot.. just think, if we can get around the language
barrier..the world is our cream tea.. ;)

Butter here normally sold in one pound packages, divided into 4 'sticks';
therefore 1 stick roughly quarter of a pound, or 4 oz.

that would likely be 2 and 2/3 cup (.66 %),but reckon we should ping the
recipe donor if not sure..

Chakolate...

No, butter measures like water - 8 ounces to the cup, so four ounces is
a half cup.

AFAIK, yes, 'sweet' butter AKA 'unsalted'; as differentiated from the more
usual salted type. Is usually marked distinctly on packaging here. Lovely
with rye bread, btw..

Diane...

2 and 2/3 rds. Well of course! Why didn't I think of that!
We have unsalted so I'm sweet! <~~~~or is that just an OZ expressions
meaning 'I'm OK' and everyone misses the double entendre! LOLOL!
Thanks Val

nospam...

You're welcome! You'll get my bill at the end of the month !!!! :O)

**Dalin**...

A stick of butter is 1/4 of a pound. 2.66c of chocolate is - I assume

Yoj...

We have 16 oz. to the pound. I'm not sure whether that's the same as
Imperial or not. We don't use that term. I know an Imperial gallon is more
than our gallon.

Val Adams...

we have 16 oz to the pound, but I am not sure in what system!

here is a table of conversions, David is going to put it on the new recipe
page when they get back, meanwhile lots of nice stuff at the old page:

- 2 and 2/3 cup of chocolate and to the best of my knowledge there is
sweet butter which is regular butter and there is unsalted butter.

HTH, :-)

Dalin

Diane...

Aha! So I'm not the only one who wondered about the butter! LOL!
Thanks for that Dalin. How civilized that they measure and divide your
butter for you before they package it!
Di....:)

**Dalin**...

We can get it in one big one lb. chunk too, but when it's divided up
it is easier to measure. The paper that each quarter is wrapped in
has lines on it for tablespoons. :-)

Dalin

Yoj...

I just looked up butter in my Encyclopedia of Cookery. It says, "It can be
salted or it can be sweet (that is, unsalted)."

Incidentally, a 1/4 lb. stick of butter is also 1/2 cup, if it's easier to
measure that way than by weight.

**Dalin**...

Ah, I didn't know that Val. I thought sweet was the regular and then
there was unsalted. makes more sense I guess though that the unsalted
would also be called sweet. But I think it's usually labeled
unsalted.

Diane...

Yes, that is how it is labelled here as well
Di

Di.