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How much butter did you say?
On 6/7/2011 8:31 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:13:14 -0500, Melba's Jammin' wrote: > >> In er.com>, >> wrote: >> >>> Just another one of life's vexing questions. While perusing a recipe >>> for clam sauce with linguine I tripped across (1/2 cup of butter). I >>> don't know about your butter, but mine doesn't come in cups. >> >> How *does* your butter come, Brick? Are you making it yourself? Mine >> comes four sticks to a pound, each stick is four ounces; each stick is a >> half cup. On the rare occasion when I buy a solid one-pound block of >> butter (I see that Costco sells them that way), I generally eyeball it >> and cut it into four sticks myself. > > Doesn't anybody know that the measurements are printed right on the > sticks of butter (and margarine)?!?!!? > > You folks are making this much harder than it really is! > > -sw Maybe Brick buys his butter in tubs and there are no markings on it. I would not have known about the displacement technique I always buy butter in the stick form and use the markings frequently enough, I can't forget they are there. BBQ -- Vegetarian An old Indian term for poor hunter... |
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Sqwertz > wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:13:14 -0500, Melba's Jammin' wrote: > > > In article > , > > wrote: > > > >> Just another one of life's vexing questions. While perusing a recipe > >> for clam sauce with linguine I tripped across (1/2 cup of butter). I > >> don't know about your butter, but mine doesn't come in cups. > > > > How *does* your butter come, Brick? Are you making it yourself? Mine > > comes four sticks to a pound, each stick is four ounces; each stick is a > > half cup. On the rare occasion when I buy a solid one-pound block of > > butter (I see that Costco sells them that way), I generally eyeball it > > and cut it into four sticks myself. > > Doesn't anybody know that the measurements are printed right on the > sticks of butter (and margarine)?!?!!? > > You folks are making this much harder than it really is! > > -sw Yeah, I know, but I guess if he couldn't figure it out, I'd just tell him about the displacement method, too. -- Barb, Fapitas!, June 7, 2011; http://web.me.com/barbschaller |
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"Sqwertz" > wrote in message ... > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:13:14 -0500, Melba's Jammin' wrote: > >> In article > , >> wrote: >> >>> Just another one of life's vexing questions. While perusing a recipe >>> for clam sauce with linguine I tripped across (1/2 cup of butter). I >>> don't know about your butter, but mine doesn't come in cups. >> >> How *does* your butter come, Brick? Are you making it yourself? Mine >> comes four sticks to a pound, each stick is four ounces; each stick is a >> half cup. On the rare occasion when I buy a solid one-pound block of >> butter (I see that Costco sells them that way), I generally eyeball it >> and cut it into four sticks myself. > > Doesn't anybody know that the measurements are printed right on the > sticks of butter (and margarine)?!?!!? > > You folks are making this much harder than it really is! I tried to run a stick of butter through my scanner to create a PDF file so I could read the instructions, but my scanner failed. but then I found this: http://www.cooksinfo.com/edible.nsf/images/butterstick/$file/butter_stick-ps-03.jpg |
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On 7-Jun-2011, Melba's Jammin' > wrote: > In article > , > wrote: > > > Just another one of life's vexing questions. While perusing a recipe > > for clam sauce with linguine I tripped across (1/2 cup of butter). I > > don't know about your butter, but mine doesn't come in cups. > > > How *does* your butter come, Brick? Are you making it yourself? Mine > comes four sticks to a pound, each stick is four ounces; each stick is a > half cup. On the rare occasion when I buy a solid one-pound block of > butter (I see that Costco sells them that way), I generally eyeball it > and cut it into four sticks myself. > > > Being way too lazy to mold a mess of butter into a measuring cup and > > then cleaning the cup after, I cast about for a better method of > > measuring out a half cup of butter. Info in the following link > > simplifies the issue and even has a touch of humor at the beginning. > > You could also do it the way we were taught in Home Ec class 53 years > ago: Put half a cup of water into a 1-cup or larger measuring cup and > add butter, submerging it, until the water line is at one cup. Pour off > the water and you are left with one-half cup of butter. Displacement. > > -- > Barb, All good info but, 5 years before you went to home ec, I was in machine shop. By the time you were in Home Ec, I was in the USAF I wasn't allowed any where near a kitchen except to eat until I was forty years old. Bottom line is that I didn't know that about measuring butter. But I can compute the firing solution to intercept a flying object travelling on a ballistic course within my area of resposibility. Doesn't help much with cooking problems though. -- Brick(Too soon old and too late smart) |
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On 7-Jun-2011, "Pico Rico" > wrote: > "Sqwertz" > wrote in message > ... > > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:13:14 -0500, Melba's Jammin' wrote: > > > >> In article > , > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Just another one of life's vexing questions. While perusing a recipe > >>> for clam sauce with linguine I tripped across (1/2 cup of butter). I > >>> don't know about your butter, but mine doesn't come in cups. > >> > >> How *does* your butter come, Brick? Are you making it yourself? Mine > >> comes four sticks to a pound, each stick is four ounces; each stick is > >> a > >> half cup. On the rare occasion when I buy a solid one-pound block of > >> butter (I see that Costco sells them that way), I generally eyeball it > >> and cut it into four sticks myself. > > > > Doesn't anybody know that the measurements are printed right on the > > sticks of butter (and margarine)?!?!!? > > > > You folks are making this much harder than it really is! > > > I tried to run a stick of butter through my scanner to create a PDF file > so > I could read the instructions, but my scanner failed. > > but then I found this: > > http://www.cooksinfo.com/edible.nsf/images/butterstick/$file/butter_stick-ps-03.jpg It sure must be slow out there this week for this thread to expand this far. Does't anybody have any kind of original idea to talk about? -- Brick(Too soon old and too late smart) |
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"Brick" > wrote in
ster.com: > > On 7-Jun-2011, Melba's Jammin' > wrote: > >> In article > , >> wrote: >> >> > Just another one of life's vexing questions. While perusing a >> > recipe for clam sauce with linguine I tripped across (1/2 cup of >> > butter). I don't know about your butter, but mine doesn't come in >> > cups. >> >> >> How *does* your butter come, Brick? Are you making it yourself? >> Mine comes four sticks to a pound, each stick is four ounces; each >> stick is a half cup. On the rare occasion when I buy a solid >> one-pound block of butter (I see that Costco sells them that way), I >> generally eyeball it and cut it into four sticks myself. >> >> > Being way too lazy to mold a mess of butter into a measuring cup >> > and then cleaning the cup after, I cast about for a better method >> > of measuring out a half cup of butter. Info in the following link >> > simplifies the issue and even has a touch of humor at the >> > beginning. >> >> You could also do it the way we were taught in Home Ec class 53 years >> ago: Put half a cup of water into a 1-cup or larger measuring cup >> and add butter, submerging it, until the water line is at one cup. >> Pour off the water and you are left with one-half cup of butter. >> Displacement. >> >> -- >> Barb, > > All good info but, > > 5 years before you went to home ec, I was in machine shop. By the time > you were in Home Ec, I was in the USAF I wasn't > allowed any where near a kitchen except to eat until I was forty years > old. Bottom line is that I didn't know that about measuring butter. > But > I can compute the firing solution to intercept a flying object > travelling on a ballistic course within my area of resposibility. > Doesn't help much with cooking problems though. > maybe if ya tried to shoot it with a stick of butter? |
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On 6/11/2011 2:37 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 05:03:49 GMT, Brick wrote: > >> But >> I can compute the firing solution to intercept a flying object travelling >> on a ballistic course within my area of resposibility. Doesn't help much >> with cooking problems though. > > Can you land a raw egg in 4" of boiling water from 20 yards and not > have it break? > > -sw Are you trying to come up with games for the Steve's version of Minute to Win it? !! BBQ -- Vegetarian An old Indian term for poor hunter... |
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"Brick" > wrote in message ster.com... > > On 7-Jun-2011, Melba's Jammin' > wrote: > >> In article > , >> wrote: >> >> > Just another one of life's vexing questions. While perusing a recipe >> > for clam sauce with linguine I tripped across (1/2 cup of butter). I >> > don't know about your butter, but mine doesn't come in cups. >> >> >> How *does* your butter come, Brick? Are you making it yourself? Mine >> comes four sticks to a pound, each stick is four ounces; each stick is a >> half cup. On the rare occasion when I buy a solid one-pound block of >> butter (I see that Costco sells them that way), I generally eyeball it >> and cut it into four sticks myself. >> >> > Being way too lazy to mold a mess of butter into a measuring cup and >> > then cleaning the cup after, I cast about for a better method of >> > measuring out a half cup of butter. Info in the following link >> > simplifies the issue and even has a touch of humor at the beginning. >> >> You could also do it the way we were taught in Home Ec class 53 years >> ago: Put half a cup of water into a 1-cup or larger measuring cup and >> add butter, submerging it, until the water line is at one cup. Pour off >> the water and you are left with one-half cup of butter. Displacement. >> >> -- >> Barb, > > All good info but, > > 5 years before you went to home ec, I was in machine shop. By the time > you were in Home Ec, I was in the USAF I wasn't > allowed any where near a kitchen except to eat until I was forty years > old. Bottom line is that I didn't know that about measuring butter. But > I can compute the firing solution to intercept a flying object travelling > on a ballistic course within my area of resposibility. Doesn't help much > with cooking problems though. > > Brick(Too soon old and too late smart) > > As you know, cooking in retirement, when there's nothing else to do, becomes a passion. Not just a passion, but a great passion. There's nothing like taking a dish and trying to make it evolve into something you think might be a bit more palatable. The internet has made all of that incredible. My brother has a PhD, has thirty patents with his name on them, and in retirement cooking makes his life work. Mine too. Good Cooking, Kent |
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