Category: Ingredients

How heavy is one cup of butter?

Are you frustrated with recipes calling for 1 cup of butter? I do. I cannot fill up a cup with butter because it will be a messy job. So, I have found the mystery of the weight of a cup of butter. A cup of butter weighs 227 grams. In Malaysia, most brands of butter…

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Wonderful Malaysian herbs (herba Malaysia)

I love a combination of the below fresh Malaysian herbs. I have such joy blending them into a paste and cook curry chicken kapitan (kari kapitan ayam) with these. The above is a platter of fresh tumeric (kunyit), ginger (halia), lemongrass (serai), red chillies (cabai merah) and kaffir lime leaves (daun limau purut). Please note…

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