!!!Gah! Quick help pls - does melt/solid butter measure the same - I accidently melted my last stick

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mariadnoca

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and I needed 6T not the whole thing. Can I just remove the 2 T of liquid and be good?

Yes, it's been that kinda day and my brain is fried.

 
volume may change, weight will not

Look on the package to see how much 2 TB solid butter weighs then you might be able to use an equal weight of melted. Success may depend on what the butter was supposed to in the recipe.

 
no worries I royally screwed this up anyway...

first because when adding the yolks, then the eggs I missed slightly with the white from one whole egg...so I decided to add a tad of the extra white, except the full 2 extra egg whites fell in. So I just dumped some whites haphazardly out.

then I forgot I'd melted a 1/2 cup and tossed the whole thing in.

Lemon curd, if you can call it that, is now cooking. It was my last stick of unsalted butter. smileys/frown.gif

Not sure if I can bring myself to go to the store. Can't see how I can gift this. I was in a hurry to make it into the pkg that needs mailing. Er...FedExing

 
Sorry it didn't work out when the pressure is on, but for future reference, the volume is the same

or at least close enough that you wouldn't notice.

Are you sure it won't work? Recipes for lemon curd vary greatly in the amount of butter. Once it cools the butter should solidify.

 
What I canned looks kinda liquidly -- the leftovers chilling don't taste bad.

Kinda needs to be stirred, then it tastes/looks ok. Not sure I want to gift it though...also, the canned top of the jar, while not popped out anymore, it isn't indented either.

Sigh.

 
Michael in Phoenix would no better than I, but the date on the can is when you can no longer sell it

I have to assume there is at least a 2-month margin of error for using it.

 
If that were the case Maria, I think half the Caribbean population would have died decades ago.

And that would have been well before posted expiry dates; they just used old stuff. I'm probably a little too carefree when it comes to expiry dates.

 
Ha, well I'll open it and if it doesn't smell dead Jim, I'll use it.

After all I'm a dr, not a miracle worker. smileys/wink.gif

 
This got me thinking about the dates. They include "Best By", "Sell By", "Use Before", and in Europe

the dates are both the best by and the manufacturing dates. And even that is changing with manufacturer. How confusing.

I just threw out a qt. of whipping cream that had not even reached its date and normally, if not opened, whip cream will last well beyond. (Probably just inconsistent temps in the frig)

THanks for the website rhoward.

 
Sailor Boy is a popular brand----hardtack. it's in every home in rural Alaska. keeps forever.

actually quite good toasted and with a schmear of peanut butter. the link is wikipedia and the picture of the store shelf is in Barrow----I shopped there for 2 1/2 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack

 
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