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How much butter did you say?
In article >,
Sqwertz > wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:13:14 -0500, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
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> > In article > ,
> > wrote:
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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.
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> 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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