Quite a number of recipes call for stick margarine. We can only buy block margarine. Can you tell me what weight is in a stick? Would love to try some of the recipes. Thank you.
By deirdrehenry
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1 stick is equivalent to 1/2 cup.
4 oz in a stick
Margarine and butter did and maybe still does come with 4 sticks to a box. So that means 1/4 of the box if the box is not packaged 4 sticks in the box.
Applying to a one pound box of four sticks margarine (not the whipped type) there are four ounces to each stick. Each stick has 8 Tablespoons.
In the US, butter is sold in 1-pound blocks or 1-pound boxes containing 4 sticks. One stick = 1/4 pound. In the US, 1 stick = 1/2 cup, but a "cup" in the US is not the same amount as a "cup" in the UK, so don't go by cups.
Many thanks for all the responses to my request re stick margarine.
Can now start to try some of the recipies I have put into my cookery file
Again many thanks
Mary of Lourdes
I'd just like to comment that I think a cup is cup everywhere -- 8 oz. There is a difference between an American gallon and an Imperial gallon, and, I think quarts and pints, but cups are the same.
No its not. On of our daughters lived in teh UK for awhile....She messed up cooking several times not realizing or noticing that their measuring cups are not the same size as ours. After her household goods arrived and she unpacked her kitchen, she noticed that they were different sizes than the ones she had bought in Ireland to get her by until hers arrived.
An American "cup" is much larger in capacity than a UK "cup"
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