imperial vs. metric

Oh dang. Today I thought I got groceries to successfully complete both cottage cheese muffins and ham & cheese spoonbread. I couldn't find various spices needed for the latter and don't have enough of alternatives so will have to give up on that one. In theory, I have all the ingredients for the former, but it's a Euro recipe so some of the stuff is in grams and I don't have a kitchen scale. I tried to refer to my usual reference: my meashirt. Sadly, today it failed me. If only it told me how much 100 g. of flour is. I can only guestimate and I'm not sure that's good enough. I'm too set on precision of measurements.

Rarely do I wear my meashirt while cooking/baking (mind the boobs). I'm too terrified of permanently staining it with something. Instead, I lay it out on my bed and run to consult the conversion scales. I kind of love it. It has saved numerous recipes, though I wish it would include what a stick of butter is in metric because I'm sick of searching that out every time I start a recipe. I refuse to remember something like that. It's my Einstein info: basic things that are not important enough to remember. I do find it somewhat infuriating that Americans standardised their butter measurements so no one has to measure anything. Where is the challenge?

OK, I never do it, but recall fondly when I had to measure butter by displacement. Did anyone else have to do that? Put water in a measuring cup and then add butter until the water level is displaced the amount of butter you need. Sigh. Displacement is awesome, at least in this instance.

I'm just going to treat 100 g. of flour as 1 cup of flour and hope for the best. I'm using this and assume something on the internet wouldn't lie to me. Admittedly, I didn't use the standard methods for assessing content on a website, but give me a fricking break. It's just a muffin. Potentially a delicious, flaky muffin. Mmm... muffins... I'm around 15 minutes away from either success or failure.

Additionally, if these don't work out, I picked up some bagels from Solly's today, since Wednesdays are cheaper. I can just live on those until I find sweet and smoked paprika. Maybe I should use up the dirt cheap cream cheese I got earlier this week and throw together some rugelach so I don't dream about them every time I eat a bagel.