Rambling recipes

Sometimes there is a "print recipe" button - that's the solution.
Search the webpage for the word "print".
That's what I do if I can't see it quickly.

I thought at first you were talking about recipes to take on a walking trip!

Or, often it says 'jump to recipe'.

I know what you mean... often the bloggers will waffle 🧇😊 on about the sunshine, their grandmothers, or their pets... when all you want is the e.g. waffle recipe. YouTube is just as bad!

Look for "Jump to Recipe" which is usually just below the recipe heading. It saves scrolling past all of the blog.

Yes. "Jump to Recipe". I have seen that too. 👍

No, it's not just you Quokka!!

I am not a bit interested in the life history of the cook, how, where and when they sourced the ingredients, their families, just give me the recipe!

Thank you all, I will look for jump to Recipe in future.

Then it probably will say:
Take one stick of butter
Two cups of flour
One cup of sugar
Etc.
Bake at 350F

Totally get your frustration- but the recipe givers do it for a reason. Advertising and making money. So they take the time to prepare, put together, buy equipment for video, etc, etc. They don't do it to help you, as such, really.

I know what you mean you have to trawl through that much you go off trying the recipe!

I, too, use "jump to recipe" or "print" unless I actually care what author's granny did to change up the recipe from her mum's.

Bruce Willis: "Ai Yi Yi!"

“Cups “ of flour and “sticks” of butter and Fahrenheit temperatures make me inordinately angry, 😤 not to mention “pan” instead of tin or “pot” instead of pan,

lol, and what about metric?

Well, that's what I mean, I work in metric, although I can work in ounces too.

Eg a rounded tablespoon of flour = approximately an ounce or 28 grams, give r take a bit, throw it in with approximate measures of everything else, mix well and bake

1 stick of butter = 8 tablespoons apparently.
Who measures butter in tablespoons? Flat? Rounded? Heaped?

Same here Callistemon- I have recipe books in both, and know conversion sort of by heart. Some of my books have got both. I count 1 oz as 25 gr, and it works as long as I do same with other measures, and use medium eggs.

NO, don't do American measures with sticks, etc.

If you use American sites, you should expect them to use measures they are comfortable with. Butter is sold in sticks in the USA, so it’s entirely sensible to use stick as a unit of measurement in recipes.

Butter Sticks to Tablespoons, Grams, and Teaspoons

1 Stick of Butter8 tbsp113.4g

These silly conversions are just nonsense!!! 113.4 g!!!

Call it 110 and be done with it. 3.4 g is a pinch.

My friend was a very precise cook.
Her very good and easy recipe for Victoria sponge was to weigh the eggs in their shells, then use that weight for flour, sugar and butter. Bake in two tins as usual.

Siope

If you use American sites, you should expect them to use measures they are comfortable with. Butter is sold in sticks in the USA, so it’s entirely sensible to use stick as a unit of measurement in recipes.

Oh! What does a stick of butter look like

Callistemon21

Siope

If you use American sites, you should expect them to use measures they are comfortable with. Butter is sold in sticks in the USA, so it’s entirely sensible to use stick as a unit of measurement in recipes.

Oh! What does a stick of butter look like

Approx 4" long, 1''x1'' around, wrapped in a sort of paper - 4 to a box. A box is a US pound of sweet butter. A pound is 2 cups, a stick is 1/2 cup. Much more than you care to know.

Brother lives in USA, we cook in his home.

Butter is sold in packs of half a lb, 1lb, etc. A stick is 4oz, so basically think of a block of butter sliced lengthwise. Each stick is then individually wrapped, and then wrapped into the bigger packs. So the photo shows 1lb of butter.

I always include UK in the search for the recipe, then the American ones don't come up as first choice.

Norah

Callistemon21

Siope

If you use American sites, you should expect them to use measures they are comfortable with. Butter is sold in sticks in the USA, so it’s entirely sensible to use stick as a unit of measurement in recipes.

Oh! What does a stick of butter look like

Approx 4" long, 1''x1'' around, wrapped in a sort of paper - 4 to a box. A box is a US pound of sweet butter. A pound is 2 cups, a stick is 1/2 cup. Much more than you care to know.

Brother lives in USA, we cook in his home.

Thank you Norah!
Sweet butter? 🤔

UK and US both have similar lbs and oz weight BUT fluid oz are different, pints gallons etc.

The US is generally the outlier in terms of weights and measures if you look at English speakers- Canada, UK, NZ and Australia are all very close (not all the same though)...e.g. 568-570 ml to a pint except for USA where it's 473ml

I wish we could all just convert to metric. So much simpler.