I often joke that google is my recipe book, if I ever need a guide on how to make anything instead of hunting through all my books, I head to my computer and start searching. If it is a basic recipe or a video on a technique, I always seem to find the answer on the Internet. However, there is one major problem! I have translate the recipes from American to British.

Confused, let me explain… the majority of the recipes I find are from American websites, they measurements are very confusing.  At school we were taught all about pounds and ounces, I pride myself mentally being able to translate these to grams. However, I was stumped when it came to “cups” and “sticks.”

At first I thought a cup was any random teacup I found in the cupboard, then I learnt that cups are an actual measurement! Around 250 grams in U.K. terms. I didn’t have any issues with teaspoons and tablespoons as I had a set of “measuring spoons.”

Measuring Cups from Amazon

When baking using butter has been my biggest obstacle, measurements are either spoon or sticks, have you every tried to use a teaspoon with chilled butter! After some research online (thank you google), I discovered this post. So now I know a stick is 113 grams and teaspoon is around the same as 20 grams.

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