Miss Leslie’s Lady’s New Receipt-Book

Weight and Measure

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 ounc	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.