Can anybody help me??

Maybe "two sticks of butter" is an American term, but I have never heard of it in the UK.

It obviously depends on how heavy a "stick" of butter is.

Sorry.

Welcome to A2K by the way.

1 stick of butter is a quarter pound....4 ounces.

4 ounces equals...113.4 grams

so 113 and a half I'd say, to get that extra buttery taste.

In America, a stick of butter is half a cup. Just a sec and I'll try to convert to grams...

.....and they say the BRITS are weird!


Stick?

OK, 1/2 cup = 4 ounces, which is 1/4 of a pound, which is 125 grams.

So a stick of butter is 125 grams, I'm pretty sure.

I just checked my butter and it said 4 oz. and in brackets
113 gram. Nowadays, most items do have ounce and gram displayed.

No, 4 oz. = 113.39 grams to be exact.

Oh, Chai tea was answering, too.

My Better Homes & Gardens cookbook has a "weights and measures" chart on the inside cover, and it says that 1/4 pound = 125 grams. <shrug> Not sure if it's right or not, but it has that direct equation.

Lord Ellpus, we buy butter by the pound, usually -- it's a rectangular container with four quarter-pound, individually wrapped narrow rectangular "bricks" of butter. Many recipes call for "sticks" of butter (1/2 cup increments).

NO! A stick of butter is 113.4 grams!

Round up to 113.5 grams!

GOSH!


yes lord, the pound of butter comes in a brick, it's quarted length wise, for each section is a stick.

I'd say each stick is about the size of a grip on a tennis racket.

Now, where the HELL did I come up with THAT comparison?

It's the size of....3 highlighter pens if you rubber band them together....

The size of a standard swingline stapler....

let me look around, I'll have to get back to you on this....

Maybe it's a liquid/ solid thing...?

Anyway, if it says right on it (didn't think of looking, duh), I'm sure that's right.

Soz, we just buy butter in a pound block, and use a knife and a good eye.

Saves on lots of fiddly unwrapping, and unneccesary packaging, methinks.

uh oh!

paola was asking about TWO stick of butter.

That would be 226.8 grams...go crazy, call it 227.

Now 2 sticks of butter is more like the size of a small box of Christmas cards.....

In the East, the butter is quartered the way Chai and Squinney say. In the Western US, the pound of butter is a flat brick that's quartered lengthwise and across, to make four quarter-pound blocks that are shorter and fatter than their Eastern cousins.

For this transplant, it was a whole new ballgame, trying to measure two tablespoons of butter with the different shape stick!

[i]A Stick of Butter[/i]

Now all paola has to do is wait for Christmas and visit the hallmark shop before going ahead with the recipe.

What were you making anyway, paola?

Did you know that only three countries are not officially metric?
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According to a survey taken by USMA many years ago, the only other countries that have not officially adopted the metric system are Liberia (in western Africa) and Burma (also known as Myanmar, in Southeast Asia).

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/internat.htm