THE HOUSEWIFE’S TABLE.
The following is a very valuable housewife’s table, by which persons not having scales and weights at hand may readily measure the article wanted to form any recipe without the trouble of weighing, allowance to be made for ap extraordinary dryness or moisture of the article weighed or measured : Wheat flour, I pound is I quart. Indian meal, I pound 2 ounces are 1 quart. Butter, when soft, I pound is 1 quart. Loaf sugar, broken, 1 pound is 1 quart. White sugar, powdered, I pound I ounce ate I quart. Ten eggs are 1 pound. Flour, 4 pecks'are 1 bushel. Sixteen large tablespoonsful are ipint. Eight large teaspoonsful are 1 gill. Four large teaspoonsful are l / z gill. Two gills are % pint. Two pints ate 1 quart. Four quarts are X gallon. A common sized tumbler holds % pint. A common sized wine glass is % a gill. A tea-cup is I gill. A large wine-glass is 1 gill. Forty drops are equal to I teaspoonful. Four teaspoonfuls are equal to I tablespoonful.
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Ashburton Herald, Volume II, Issue 521, 9 December 1879, Page 4
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175THE HOUSEWIFE’S TABLE. Ashburton Herald, Volume II, Issue 521, 9 December 1879, Page 4
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