We have a peninsula with a breakfast bar. We have already paid for the quartz countertop and they are coming to measure this week. Well, I guess we only have 9 inches of overhang for the breakfast bar.
There are 2 cups of butter in one pound. One stick of butter is equal to 1/2 cup. Butter is normally sold in one-pound packages, which contains four sticks (2 cups). There are 2 cups of butter in one pound. One stick of butter is equal to 1/2 cup.
Then they turn around and demand one stick of butter. And the whole time, they're asking for the same thing! In this country, butter is mostly packaged in 1-pound boxes, with four individually wrapped quarters or sticks. Each pound is two cups of butter. Each quarter-pound stick is 8 tablespoons or a half a cup. Each tablespoon is 1/2 ounce. (So to answer your question, a half pound of butter is one cup.) To thwart the wicked aims of those recipe writers once and for all, we present the following fool-proof Butter Measurement Translation Chart to Defeat Nefarious Recipe Writers*