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Post by househund on Sept 15, 2010 15:01:25 GMT -5
I'm trying a cup cake recipe and it refers to a stick of butter..
But we don't have stick's in the uk
Would someone be kind enough to tell me how heavy a stick is please.
Thanks in Advance
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Post by AnnaMatrix on Sept 15, 2010 15:38:10 GMT -5
Hi, Househund! A stick of butter is 1/4 pound. Hope this helps, bet the cupcakes will be yummy!  Gail |
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Post by crazy4pink on Sept 15, 2010 17:35:56 GMT -5
It is also 1/2 cup or 8 teaspoons |
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Post by Basketlady on Sept 15, 2010 20:40:31 GMT -5
Ooops! That's 8 TABLESPOONS!  Michelle |
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Post by crazy4pink on Sept 15, 2010 23:26:12 GMT -5
oh Michelle you are right  8 tablespoons |
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Post by househund on Sept 16, 2010 0:51:24 GMT -5
Your the best... thank you girls
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Post by boxofcolours on Sept 16, 2010 2:13:05 GMT -5
You'd laugh, the first time I went to Walt Disney World I bought myself a Mickey Mouse cook book but when I got home to England I struggled to follow some of the recipes. I'd never heard of shortening or half and half & like Ros was struggling with USA weights & measures!! So the next time I visited Mickey I went into a bookstore and asked if they had such a thing as a cooking dictionary!! The amazing sales assistant smiled, disappeared for a few moments & came back with this: "Food Lovers Companion". www.amazon.com/New-Food-Lovers-Companion-Comprehensive/dp/0812015207/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284620519&sr=1-1It converts imperial into metric. Converts lb's into cups & gives definitions for thousands of ingredients. Heck it even gives you assistance on how to pronounce some of the more unusual items. And just incase I get the urge to cook half way up a mountain it tells you what to adjust in a recipe when baking at high altitude!! |
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Post by Basketlady on Sept 16, 2010 6:13:13 GMT -5
Jane, thanks for the tip. I put that book in my Amazon cart.
When we lived overseas, I didn't cook a lot of Korean foods, but knew quite a few people from the embassy. I've found the internet is a great resource for conversion tables.
I've given more than one "foreign" friend a set of American measuring cups and measuring spoons!
Michelle
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Post by househund on Sept 17, 2010 2:38:57 GMT -5
Jane you make me laugh ....
I love the American way of cooking with cups and spoons.. it's so much easier.
But I must admit the stick of butter threw me.
One of my fav tv programmes is "The barefoot Contessa" Ina Garten... I want to live in her house hahahahha
Are her books any good girls?
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Post by Basketlady on Sept 17, 2010 6:15:05 GMT -5
Oh, I love the Barefoot Contessa!  She is on in the afternoon here, so I seldom get to watch her. The kids only get a half hour of media time during school, and they never want to use it on her! I haven't used any of her cookbooks, but I've used several of her recipes. I made her sour cream coffee cake for the first day of school and added apples into it. Yum! If you go to foodnetwork.com, you can find a ton of her recipes there. (and lots of other great ones! I want to be one of her friends! She is always making some great meal for her friends. Mmmmmm... Michelle |
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Post by chili on Oct 3, 2010 20:07:01 GMT -5
food network..... so many great recipes, so little time and such large hips already.....  great to look at anyways!!! ;D
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Gail
