I love the look of the recipes on most US sites, but what on earth is “A Cup??? A “stick” of butter? Help!
One “stick” of butter 125g, half of one of our packs of butter. American Butter is also slightly less fatty (80% Fat as opposed to our 82%. American’s call European style butter “Plugra”) than our butter, but I haven’t found that made a difference to anything! One cup is 240ml. There is no real equivalent “Weight” amount, as a cup is a Volume measurement. If you still need to work in weight rather than volume, it helps to have a converter. Here are two cookery unit converters for international equivalences: http://cuisinedumonde.hypermart.net/convert.html and http://www.cambridgeculinary.com/html/equiv.html. These will help you convert each ingredient. Then save them in your equivalent measures to use next time or print to save. However, I went and bought myself a set of cups (Asda, Lakeland, Tesco all sell them, I have two sets of the Asda Metal Cups, and a Set of Plastic Lakeland Cups) and now very rarely use my scales!
