EQUIVALENTS FOR WEIGHTS.
A spoonful means that the »poon must heaped and rounded. Half a spoonful means a level spoon. Quartor spoonful means half ft lovelled spoon. Lumps must bo pressed out boforo measuring. 1 tablespoon flour (heaped) or sugar weighs loz. 1 desert spoonful flour or sugar weighs £o/.. 1 breakfast cup of flour weighs 6oi. 1 tea cup of flour weighs Jib. 1 tea cup of sugar, not quite full, weighs Jib. 1 egg weighs 2oz. 1 gill is about I tcacupful, 2 gills equal 1 pint. 1 breakfast cupful equals A pint. 0 tablespoons liquid equal J. gill. 1 desertspoonful butter equals lo:;. 1 level teaspoon currants or sultanas •jreigh loz.
1 level teaspoon rice equals loz. 2 tablespoons breadcrumbs weigh loz.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20372, 28 September 1929, Page 7 (Supplement)
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125EQUIVALENTS FOR WEIGHTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20372, 28 September 1929, Page 7 (Supplement)
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