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The answer is that there is â Cup of cubed cheese in a Â¼ block of cheese, or 2.5 cups of cubed cheese in a pound. There is also 1 cup of of shredded cheese in a Â¼ block of cheese or 4 cups in a pound of cheese.
Each pound is two cups of butter. Each quarter-pound stick is 8 tablespoons or a half a cup. Each tablespoon is 1/2 ounce. (So to answer your question, a half pound of butter is one cup.) To thwart the wicked aims of those recipe writers once and for all, we present the following fool-proof.