{"id":86,"date":"2008-12-08T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/how-to-make-3-lbs-of-butter-seem-small\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T03:59:00","slug":"how-to-make-3-lbs-of-butter-seem-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/how-to-make-3-lbs-of-butter-seem-small\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make 3 lbs of butter seem small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have found one sure fire way to make 3 lbs of butter seem like not<br \/>\nmuch of a big deal &#8212; and it has to do with Christmas cookies.<\/p>\n<p>For whatever reason, even as there is no time for (m)any of the usual<br \/>\nsorts of holiday things, such as decorating our home, I hang on to<br \/>\nmaking Christmas cookies.&nbsp;&nbsp; Perhaps it&#8217;s because:&nbsp; if I<br \/>\nmake them, I get to decide if they&#8217;re good (and I don&#8217;t make any yucky<br \/>\nones &#8212; again, by <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">my<\/span><br \/>\ndefinition \ud83d\ude42 ).<\/p>\n<p>So, in this brief period of actually being <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">at<\/span> home, I pulled out my various<br \/>\nrecipes, selected which ones I&#8217;d like to make this year, and started<br \/>\ntotting up various repetitive ingredients, to make sure I&#8217;d have enough<br \/>\nsugar, flour, nuts, chocolate (I said they&#8217;re <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">good<\/span>) and butter.&nbsp; I came up<br \/>\nto 98 tbsp of butter required.&nbsp; Ninety-eight.&nbsp; And there are<br \/>\n4 tbsp per quarter cup.&nbsp; My quick math suggested:&nbsp;&nbsp; SIX<br \/>\nPOUNDS OF BUTTER?!<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I was corrected (thanks, Mom!) &#8212; 4 tbsp per quarter CUP,<br \/>\nnot per quarter pound.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; So, it&#8217;s only 3 pounds (and 2<br \/>\ntbsp) of butter for all these cookies.&nbsp; See?&nbsp; Seems like<br \/>\nhardly anything, now \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>For my next trick &#8212; I&#8217;ll figure out how to make the amount of time<br \/>\nneeded to make the cookies undergo a similar transformation&#8230; wish me<br \/>\nluck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have found one sure fire way to make 3 lbs of butter seem like not much of a big deal &#8212; and it has to do with Christmas cookies. For whatever reason, even as there is no time for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/how-to-make-3-lbs-of-butter-seem-small\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dQdt-1o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}