On Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 2:51:21 AM UTC-10, F Murtz wrote:
> You yanks use mad measurements,I just found a crumble recipe, 12
> tablespoons of butter [impossible] they wanted it grated,it would need
> to be hard.
> butter should be by weight unless melted is specified and even if so it
> would be better by weight then melted.
> I realize that you also have a size which we do not have but once you
> know it is easy, but this spoon rubbish took me ages to figure out with
> google
> Can any one explain how this spoonful of butter started?

The trouble with grams measurements is that you need to have a precision digital scale. For liquids, it's probably more precise to use volume measurements, in which case, mLs would be more precise.

12 tablespoons of butter is indeed an awkward measurement. 170 grams or 1 and a half sticks of butter makes more sense. Perhaps your recipe was converted by a conversion bot. The bots have a lot to learn about how humans do things. OTOH, a great many of the recipes on the internet are suspect. "12 tablespoons of butter" should have sent up a red flag way high.