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> 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.

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Barb,
Fapitas!, June 7, 2011; http://web.me.com/barbschaller