Kitchen Math
| AMOUNT | MEASURE |
| Butter or Margarine | |
|
½ Stick |
¼ cup or 4 tbs. |
| 1 pound | 4 Sticks or 2 cups |
| Cream Cheese | |
| 8oz | 1cup |
| Chocolate | |
| 1 square | 1 oz |
| 1 6 oz. pkg. chocolate chips | 1 cup |
| COOKIES | |
| for 1cup of crumbs | 19 chocolate wafers |
| 22 vanilla wafers | |
| 14 graham crackers | |
Sugar
| 1 lb granulated | 2 cups |
| 1 lb. granulated brown | 3 ¾ cups |
| 1 lb brown sugar | 2¼ cups, firmly packed |
| 1 lb. confectioners | 4 ¼ cups |
| substitutions, 1 cup granulated | 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed or 1 1/3 cups granulated brown sugar |
Flour all purpose
|
1 lb. |
4 cups |
| 1 oz. | 4 tbsp. |
| 1 cup, sifted | 1 cup plus 2 tbsp cake flour |
Eggs
| whole, 1 cup | 5 large eggs |
| whole, 1 lb. | 9 medium eggs |
| yolks, 1 cup | 12 large yolks |
| whites, 1 cup | 8 to 10 large whites |
| IN A PINCH SUBSTITUTIONS | |
| 1 square unsweetened chocolate | 3 tbs. unsweetened cocoa powder + 1 tbs. butter/ margarine |
| 1 cup cake flour ( FOR THICKENING) | 1 tbs. cornstarch |
| 1 tsp. baking powder | ¼ tsp. baking soda + ½ tsp. cream of tartar + ¼ tsp. cornstarch |
| 1 cup corn syrup | 1cup sugar + ¼cup additional liquid used in recipe |
| 1 cup milk | ½cup evaporated milk + ¼ cup water |
| 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk | 1 tbs. vinegar or Lemon juice + enough milk to make 1 cup |
| 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar | 1 cup sugar + 2 tbs. molasses |
