Here’s my favorite trick. Grab that stick of butter. Most butter sticks in the US come with tablespoon markings printed right on the wrapper. A full stick is 1/2 cup, which is 8 tablespoons. So 3/4 cup is 1.5 sticks of butter. That’s one whole stick plus half of another stick. Half of that? You’re looking for 3/4 of a stick of butter. That’s one stick, but you only use 3/4 of it. Easy, right?
Wait—don’t panic. Let’s translate: 3/4 of a stick is 6 tablespoons. Because a full stick has 8 tablespoons. Half of 3/4 cup? That’s 6 tablespoons of butter. Boom. Now you can just scoop out 6 tablespoons and feel like a kitchen genius.
