To reduce our culinary operation to as exact a certainty as the nature of the processes would admit of, we have, wherever it was needful, given the quantities of each article. - The weights, avoirdupoise. - The measure. The liquid graduated measure of the apothecaries, as it appeared more accurate and convenient than any other, the pint being divided into sixteen ounces, the ounce into eight drachms: a middling size teaspoon will contain about a drachm; four such teaspoons are equal to a middling size, large, or tablespoon, or half an ounce; four tablespoons, to a common-sized wineglass. The specific gravities of the various substances being so extremely different, we cannot offer any auxiliary standards* for the weights, which we earnestly recommend the cook to employ, if she wishes to gain credit for accuracy and uniformity in her business: these she will find it necessary to have as small as the quarter of a drachm avoirdupoise, which is equal to nearly seven grains troy weight.

* A large tablespoonful of flour weighs about half an ounce.

Glass measures, divided into tea and table spoons, and containing from an ounce to half a pint, may be bad at Hancock's Glass Warehouse, Charing Cross; and at Price's, near Exeter Change, Strand; where may also be had double-headed pepper and spice boxes, with caps over the gratings. The superiority of these, by preserving the contents from the action of the air, must be sufficiently obvious to every one: the fine flavour of Cayenne pepper is soon lost, from the botlles it is usually kept in not being well stopped.