Margarine

There are (reputedly) four sticks to a pound. A stick is therefore 4 oz. This page should give you all the conversions necessary. About the only thing you need to watch is that an American pint is "short measure" in Britain - 16 fl oz instead of 20 (which is why British cars go further on a gallon of petrol than American cars). http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/cooking.htm

You don't have any in your stores? Stick of margarine that is? Or butter? We were taught in Home Economics how to measure butter in a measuring cup by filling the cup with water up to 1/2 cup or whatever and then putting butter/margarine in until it measures one full cup. Or, you can check out this site I found: http://www.ochef.com/837.htm

hi! One stick is 1/2 cup.. or 4oz of margarine.. now I just recently found out there is a slightly different measurement for solids, like flour, etc, and liquids, like milk, or I suppose melted butter? Who woulda figured? Alll these years of cooking and I never knew of any such difference! Everything seems to turn out ok, but I learned of this from a couple of great cooks with Italian in their genes.. so I'm thinking they're likely very right because their dishes and baked goods usually far exceed my meager meat and potatoes kind of cooking.. Anyway, it's a half a cup.. Good luck with the recipe!

If it calls for stick margarine tub margarine will probably not work, as it is not a hard type of fat. To answer your question, though, A stick of margarine is one quarter of a pound or half a cup. That would be four ounces. So roughly 116 grams, if I know my conversions correctly.

There are different size tubs here in America so I'm not sure how big yours is but a stick of margarine is 4 ounces so if you have a scale you can weigh the margarine.

It should be specify on the packaging.

Think it is 4 ounces. Too busy to Mylot these days. Hope that you are okay.

Did you know that margarine is one molecule away from plastic? and has the same amount of calories like butter? How about transfats? Or hydrogenated? I refuse to use margarine in my diet. I stick(no pun intended) with butter,and you can replace margarine with butter in any recipe....Usually one stick is 1/4 pound,since in a package of 1lb butter,are 4 sticks .

This link will help you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Margarine.jpg In fact I could not identify 'margarine" Thanks to you I searched and learnt about it from wikipedia. Depending on your need you can decide the quantity required taking that cup shown in the picture as a guide.

If only one stick,I believe it may not affect the whole recipe, not unless you are doing cakes which are sensitive. However, that one stick is nearly 1/4 of a teaspoon or less than a gram. You need not weigh if only for a stick since you can not weigh that using an ordinary scales, the reason maybe you are given an approximation and so just scoop it with your stick and see the purpose of it in your cooking. If only not to stick with the pan or not to stick with just like in noodles.

A stick is 1/4 cup so just use the same measurement of the tub. I use tub also. I use Country Crock in a tub.

! stick is equal with 113,40 g. I hope it would help. I wish you nice day.

Hold money,I was in China,you do not know how much margarine which an ounce if our 150RMB/per box,I do not know of margarine,do not understand why you use margarine to cook?Is there a matural butter?And here we are with the peanut oil,soybean oil,and I often use peanut oil to cook at home,very fragrant,and peanut oil are also rich in nutritional value.

Easy you take the butter and put it in a measuring cup. I've always none it that way I never have used a stick of butter is what I call it.

We don’t have margarine in stick form in Australia either; we have tubs like you do which are 500grams to 1 kilo. I read your responses and learnt something I didn’t know, 1 stick of margarine equals half a cup. Brilliant! I can now follow American recipes…Not that I cook a lot…useful information all the same, hope your dish turns out!

i do not know how much one stick of margarine is. but reading the comments in this thread, it is interesting to know and learn. good discussion.

I am sure that the tube write the quantity of the margarine you have. I believe it is only the container that is different. And if the method of computation is different, then you just have to convert from English to metric and vice versa.

do you know, i love that you asked this! i actually think the same thing on a regular basis when i find a recipie! and when they say stick, is it actually a rectangular stick?!

A pound of butter is 16 ounces. There are four (4) sticks of butter in a pound. Therefore, a stick of butter is equal to four (4) ounces

1/4 = 56grams 1/2 = 113grams 3/4 = 170grams 1 cup = 226grams some converters vary and it fluctuates by 1 or 2 grams lets say... 1/4 cup might be = 56 or 55grams or 1/2 cup might be = 113 or 115 grams or 1 cup might be 226 or 225 grams but what i noticed is that 3/4 doesn't change its constantly 170grams ...