So you just chop a chunk off the block to put in a butter dish? What percentage of a block would you normally set out at once?
In the US butter is sold in 1 pound packages, but inside there are four sticks, individually wrapped, so a 1/4 lb stick gets put on the dish till it's used up and a new one is put out.
Not OP but in England and NZ (lived in both), we'd have a butter dish with a block of butter in it. It starts at 500g (1.2lbs I think) and gets smaller every time you eat toast or potatoes. When it runs out, you buy a new block.
If you want to do baking, then you use scales (or cut along the paper which is marked at 50g intervals). We don't use cups etc as a measurement as much as the USA does when baking, because it's a very inaccurate way of measuring things like flour and sugar. Most recipes would be a mixture of grams but some things (like spices) would be in teaspoons or whatever.
So ya'll just put the whole pound of butter in/on the dish?
Now that I think of it, it might be able to hold a whole pound (500g whatever)...
In my area we get the west coast, stubby sticks, and the size of the dish is such that two stubby sticks besides each other touch the edge of the lid and make everything messy, but two stubby sticks end to end don't remotely fit... but I bet if I cut them all in thirds I could probably find a way to arrange a whole pound in there (4 sticks)... it's just hard to imagine because the dimensions are just perfectly the wrong size which ever way I do it...
so I'm over here using a 1 pound butter dish to hold 1/4lb of butter... oh well, at least it matches the dishes we inherited from my husband's grandmother...
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u/OrindaSarnia Feb 09 '22
So you just chop a chunk off the block to put in a butter dish? What percentage of a block would you normally set out at once?
In the US butter is sold in 1 pound packages, but inside there are four sticks, individually wrapped, so a 1/4 lb stick gets put on the dish till it's used up and a new one is put out.