This section is from the book "Practical Housekeeping", by Estelle Woods Wilcox. Also available from Amazon: The New Practical Housekeeping.
1 quart sifted flour (well heaped) weighs 1 lb.
3 coffee-cups sifted flour (level) weigh 1 lb.
4 tea-cups sifted flour (level) weigh 1 lb. 1 quart unsifted flour weighs 1 lb. 1 oz.
1 quart sifted Indian meal weighs 1 lb. 4 oz.
1 pint soft butter (well packed) weighs 1 lb.
2 tea-cups soft butter (well packed) weigh 1 lb. 1 1/3 pints powdered sugar weigh 1 lb.
2 coffee-cups powdered sugar (level) weigh 1 lb. 2 3/4 tea-cups powdered sugar (level) weigh 1 lb.
1 pint granulated sugar (heaped) weighs 14 oz.
1 1/2 coffee-cups granulated sugar (level) weigh 1 lb.
2 tea-cups granulated sugar (level) weigh 1 lb.
1 pint coffee "A" sugar weighs 12 oz.
1 3/4 coffee-cups coffee "A" sugar level) weigh 1 lb.
2 tea-cups coffee "A" sugar (well heaped) weigh 1 lb. pint best brown sugar weighs 13 oz.
1 2/4 coffee-cups best brown sugar level) weigh 1 lb. 2 1/2 tea-cups best brown sugar (level) weigh 1 lb. 2 3/4 coffee-cups Indian meal (level) equal 1 qt. 3 1/2 tea-cups Indian meal (level) equal 1 qt.
1 table-spoon (well heaped) granulated "coffee A" or best brown sugar, l oz.
2 table-spoons (well rounded) of powdered sugar or flour weigh 1 oz.
1 table-spoon (well rounded) of soft butter weighs 1 oz. Soft butter size of an egg weighs 2 oz.
7 table-spoons granulated sugar (heaping) equal 1 tear-cup.
5 table-spoons sifted flour or meal (heaping) equal 1 tea-cup. 4 table-spoons soft butter (well heaped) equal 1 tea-cup.
3 table spoons sweet chocolate grated weigh 1 oz.
2 tea-spoons (heaping) of flour, sugar or meal, equal 1 heaping table-spoon
16 drams (dr.) make 1 ounce (oz.) 25 pounds make 1 quarter (qr.)
16 ounces make 1 pound (lb.) 4 quarters make 1 hundred weight (ewt).
2000 weight makes 1 ton (T).
4 gills (gi.) make 1 pint (pt.) | 2 pints make 1 quart (qt.)
4 quarts make 1 gallon (gal.)
Apples, dried, bushel, | 25 pounds. |
Beef, firkin, | 100 " |
Pork, barrel, | 200 |
Beans, bushel, | 60 |
Butter, flrkin, | 56 " |
tub, | 84 |
Peaches, dried, bushel, | 33 |
Fish, barrel. | 200 |
" quintal, | 112 |
Flour, barrel, net, | 196 pounds. |
Honey, gallon, | 12 " |
Molasses, hhd., 130 to 150 gallons. | |
Salt, barrel, 31/2 bushels. | |
" bushel, 70 pounds. | |
Sugar, barrel, 200 to 250 pounds. | |
Soap, barrel, | 256 |
" box, | 75 " |
Tea, chest, 60 to 84 " | |
 
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