WEIGHT AND MEASURE.
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Wheat flour • • • one pound of 16 ounces . is one quart Indian meal .... one pound 2 ounces . • is one quart Butter, when soft, • • one pound 1 ounce • . is one quart Loaf-sugar, broken up, one pound is one quart White sugar, powdered, one pound 1 ounce . • is one quart Best brown sugar . • one pound 2 ounces • . is one quart Eggs .•••.. ten eggs .... weigh one pound.
LIQUID MEASURE.
Four large table-spoonfuls .... are .... half a jill. Eight large table-spoonfuls • . . are .... one jill. Two jills .are . , • • . half a pint A common-sized tumbler . . • . holds . . . half a pint A common-sized wine-glass • . . holds about . half a jill. Two pints • are .... one quart Four quarts are .... one gallon.
About twenty-five drops of any thin liquid will fill a common-sized tea-spoon.
Four table-spoonfuls will generally fill a common-sized wine-glass.
Four wine-glasses will fill a half-pint tumbler, or a large coffee-cup.
A quart black bottle holds in reality about a pint and a half; sometimes not so much.
A table-spoonful of salt is about one ounce.
DRY MEASURE.
Half a gallon . . . . . . is . . .a quarter of a peck. One gallon is . . . half a peck. Two gallons ...••. are . . one peck. Four gallons are . . half a bushel. Eight gallons ... .. are . . one bushel.
Throughout this book, the pound is avoirdupois weight—sixteen ounces.
