Rambling recipes

Thank you all 🙂
Clear as unclarified butter 😁

Siope - if that's all it means I've obviously forgotten! I was remembering from 40 years ago when we lived in the Midwest and bought milk/butter direct from a farm dairy.
We bought both sweet cream butter and sweet butter - maybe we bought one from the dairy and one locally if we ran out...
What's the difference between them?
We only bought unsalted but I know sweet cream salted was also available.

Just came back to say what NotSpaghetti said!

Oh, unless it's "sweet cream butter" which can be sweet or salted!

Callistemon, sweet butter is butter made with sweet - ie not soured - cream.

Sweet = unsalted.

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.

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? 🤔

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

lol, and what about metric?

“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,

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!"

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

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.

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

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