How do you measure a cup of butter?!
Answers: I live in Aus but have a few American cook books and instead of ounces or grams it always uses cups which is fine for dry or liquid ingredients but when it says a cup of butter whats the easiest way to measure....literally cram it in there??? The butter is generally not the shape of the cup and sometimes I want to keep it chilled so cant soften it to make it fit! Or is there an easy way where you know that a cup equates to a certain number of ounces or grams?? The butter generally doesnt fit t
1 pound of butter is 2 cups, always.
On the side of the butter sticks there are lines which indictate a tablespoon and so forth....
Put 1 cup of cold water in a 2-cup measuring cup. Add butter until the water level reaches 2 cups.
if you buy it in sticks it's marked on the side
1 cup = 8 ounces (oz)
2 sticks = 1 cup
225 grams = 1 cup
You can soften the butter and fill a measuring cup completely full and then level it off with the back to a knife. Don't melt it completely into a liquid unless the recipe calls for that.
If you buy butter by the pound and it comes in 4 sticks then use two sticks for a cup. Each stick is a half cup.
one stick is 1/2 a cup. two sticks is 1 cup.
1 cup Melted butter = 8 ounces (liquid) = 1 cup Solid butter = 8 ounces (weight)
It is a straight across conversion
Each stick of butter is 1/2 cup, or two cups to a pound of butter. Hope this helps !
just leave the butter out of the fridge in a covered bowl -- let it soften and then cram it in the cup and top it off. That is a cup of butter. (that's how I was taught)
Displacement.
If you have a four cup measure. (Pyrex makes them of clear glass and I have always used the same measuring device for both liquids and dry ingredients.
First fill measuring cup up to the 2 cup mark with cold tap water. Then drop in butter until water level rises to the 3 cup level. Then you will have 1 cup of butter. Just scoop butter out of the water.
Use a 2 cup measure. Put in one cup of cold water, then put in the butter until the water line reaches "2 cups" Pur off teh water and you will have exactly one cup of butter in the cup.