A tablespoon is one eighth of a stick. Take the wrapper off the butter, fold the ends in so you have a strip of wrapper the length of the butter stick. Now fold that in half and cut there. That's four tablespoons, or a quarter cup. Fold again, and cut in both sections, so you have four two tablespoon sections. One more fold will get you individual tablespoons. This is far easier if you use a new stick, as then you can compare the lengths. Another trick is to determine how many fingers fit on the top of a stick of butter -- unless your hands are very large or very small your eight fingers should come very close to covering it. Adjust and use fingers as a measuring guide.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Terra Syslo > Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 3:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CnD] measuring stick butter question > > Does anyone have any tips for measuring stick butter, like if a recipe > calls for 2 or 3 tablespoons? It would be nice if they made some type > of slicer that would slice a stick of butter into tablespoons or > teaspoons, but I doubt something lie that exists. Any suggestions will > be greatly appreciated. > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
