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	TSR : Web boards : M/s D/s O&P : "The Butler's Pantry - Issue 2" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The Butler's Pantry - Issue 2 (79) This post is on the M/s D/s O&P web board. 19 Jan 09, 2:30 AM ravenkaldera US(MA), 6 yrs thegildedlili wrote: hi Raven, thanks for the recipe, i'm definitely going to try it, but would you (or anyone else in the US)mind telling me what a stick of butter translates to in grams or ounces? butter doesn't come in "sticks" over here. A pack of butter over here is a pound of butter, and there are four sticks in it, so each one is a quarter pound, or 8 tablespoons. Sorry I don't know what that is in metric, but it's probably easy to find out. -Raven Kaldera -If you're in charge, it's all on your head. If it's not all on your head, then you're not really in charge. 19 Jan 09, 1:40 PM Mistress_Tiaras_boy 5 yrs Mistress_Tiara wrote: Bah! I will end up with baby oil in my bath now Could be worse, could be in your tea ! Would that be punishable ? Mistress Tiara's beloved boy. 19 Jan 09, 5:24 PM Andrin DE, 3 yrs ravenkaldera wrote: A pack of butter over here is a pound of butter, and there are four sticks in it, so each one is a quarter pound, or 8 tablespoons. Sorry I don't know what that is in metric, but it's probably easy to find out. -Raven Kaldera 1 pound = 454 grams --> 1 stick would be 114 grams Andrin 19 Jan 09, 6:58 PM boston UK, 11 yrs Mistress_Tiaras_boy wrote: Mistress_Tiara wrote: Bah! I will end up with baby oil in my bath now Could be worse, could be in your tea ! Would that be punishable ? Only if she could get off the loo for long enough .... 19 Jan 09, 7:00 PM Mistress_Tiara 5 yrs Pesky s-types 'If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again'. Sojourner Truth. 20 Jan 09, 12:38 PM JRCs_petk HK, 4 yrs Y! She'd be shiny though! Surely the shine factor overrides the punishment? 20 Jan 09, 12:42 PM Lord_Laraby US(NY), 6 yrs Y! ravenkaldera wrote: A pack of butter over here is a pound of butter, and there are four sticks in it, so each one is a quarter pound, or 8 tablespoons. -Raven Kaldera Hi Raven I'm glad I noticed this post as I was just about to give that information. For a little background, we in the USA buy many things by the pound. Butter, and meat are just two common ones. For a quick conversion involving avoirdupois and metric look here: dry weight: 1 pound (lb) = 16 ounces (oz) 1 oz = 28.35 grams (not for troy ounces) liquid volume: 1 gallon (gal) x4 = 4 quarts (qt) = 3.785 liters = 231 cu inch = 8.3370 pounds of water 1 qt = 2 pints (pt) = 0.9463 liters (l) 1 pt = 2 cups 1 cup = 8 fluid ounces (fl oz) 1 fl oz = 2 tablespoones (tbsp) = 29.57 milliliters (ml) 1 fl oz (British) = 28.41 ml 1 tbsp = 3 teaspoons (tsp) = 14.78 ml 1 tsp = 4.93 ml If anyone is interested I can post simple dry volume conversions an another post. Call me LL 20 Jan 09, 12:47 PM JRCs_petk HK, 4 yrs Y! Butter is sold by the pound in the US? Yikes! That's over two kilos of animal fat....yeck! Thanks LL, your conversions help to clarify the differences. It also explains why some items I cook from a US recipe don't quite work! 20 Jan 09, 1:07 PM anjuli UK, 4 yrs Wow! I had no idea either. Canada is the same as us with half pound packs then. That would definitely have tripped me up as I sort of assumed that they would be the same - silly me! Ours used to be 8oz and are now 250g but I still tend to think of a quarter pack as 2oz. Isn't it a pain? I still think in ounces and my recipes are in ounces and pounds, and now I have new digital scales in grams. I keep using the recipe book for my bread machine to convert! You'd think it would go in! I'm one of those kids who grew up when the two were in operation alongside each other during the supposed transition and school tried to teach both but everyone around you still talked in miles, feet and inches, let alone flipping pounds and ounces. Stones are just a damn nuisance because I have no idea of weight in kilos or pounds when it comes to people-sized weights. And to me a yard is sort of a meter'ish length that I remember my dad using. Heavens help us. It's no wonder we can't share recipes! anjuli ps And flippin american cups are bigger than canadian ones! No Texan jokes please! Is it just me that finds cups difficult to translate into anything I can use. I hadn't realised US cups are a half pint liquid and that's a bit easier but I have to check everytime for weights. *** “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” Anais Nin *** Edited 20 Jan 09, 1:11 PM by anjuli 20 Jan 09, 1:09 PM Andrin DE, 3 yrs Kim you mixed that up. One US pound is equivalent to about 454 gram, so little less than half a kilo. I've reduced my butter consumption drastically over the years. Most thinks can be made with olive oil or other oils. The view things I take butter for is the dough for a quiche crust. Andrin Edited for a typo that remains in Anjuli's quote: so you still can lough on me Edited 20 Jan 09, 1:19 PM by Andrin Next page