American measurements?

A stick of butter is 4 oz. (1/4 lb., 8 TBSP)

Shortening is a semisolid fat, like Crisco or Cookeen brands. You CAN substitute butter or lard for shortening in lots of recipes, I prefer to use the shortening when called for.

The weight of a cup will vary depending on the specific gravity of the ingredient. If the measurement is being given in cups, it's talking volume, not weight. A cup is 16 Tablespoons, 8 ounces, or around 240ml in volume.

1. A stick of butter is 8tbsp or 1/4 pound.

2. shrtening is just fta, there is veggie shortening or animal fat shortening. You can also use lard.

3. A cup is a volume measurement not a weight. And the weight can change depending on different things.

http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/cooking

Use this web site to help with conversions

Shortening is a vegetable oil that is solidified and this can be measured out.

Our butter is usually sold in a 1 lb brick

there are 2 cups in a brick of butter

We do not use interchangeable ingredients by weight and volume usually,in a recipe, all ingredients can't be substituted as their weights might be different.

Generally Canadian & American recipes use CUPS, TABLESPOONS, TEASPOONS and multiples of them . and depending on the ingredient used, each would have a different weight.

1 stick of butter = 113 grams =4 ounces

shortening= you can buy in any UK supermarket under the name Trex, but its the same as lard ( but vegetable lard..if you know what I mean)

Cup is a volume, not a weigh.

You take a cup of something and fill it whatever you have. A cup of meat would weigh more than a cup of spinach leaves. You can buy these cups at John Lewis, its a ring with different sizes cups, but if you use any teacup ( not mug) in your house and use it for all the ingredients, thats the idea. Thats how the whole cup idea started. No woman in the last century had scales for their food..

Don't know of a song, but your measurements came from this side of the Atlantic, and here the Imperial measurements have mostly been replaced with metric measurements. We have to buy food in Kilos, Milk and Petrol (Gas) in Litres (Liters), but we still mostly use Miles rather than Kilometers! I still think in Imperial and Metric and convert in my head!

Just how many of these fruits or vegetable questions will we see recently?

We don't do weight! Sorry!

But shortening is it's own thing, it's not butter or margarine or oil.

Shortening is just kinda shortening.