This section is from the book "The Pattern Cook-Book", by The Butterick Publishing Co.. Also available from Amazon: The Pattern Cook-Book.
"Make it plain upon the tables, That he may run that readeth it."
Scripture.
4 tea-spoonfuls of liquid, . . . . 1 table-spoonful.
4 table-spoonfuls of liquid, . 1/2 gill, 1/4 cupful or I wine-glassful.
I table-spoonful of liquid, . . . . • 1/2 ounce.
1 pint of liquid, ..... 1 pound.
2 gills of liquid, .... 1 cupful, or 1/2 pint.
1 kitchen cupful, ..... 1/2 pint.
1 quart of sifted pastry flour. . . . . 1 pound.
1 quart of sifted "new-process" flour, less I gill, . I pound.
• 4 cupfuls of flour, . . . . I quart, or I pound.
2 rounded table-spoonfuls of flour, . . . . 1 ounce,
1 rounded table-spoonful of granulated sugar, . . I ounce.
2 rounded table-spoonfuls of ground spice, . . I ounce. 1 heaping table-spoonful of powdered sugar, . . I ounce.
3 cupfuls of corn-meal, . . . . . 1 pound.
11/2 pint of corn-meal, ..... I pound.
I cupful of butter, . . . . . . 1/2 pound.
I pint of butter, . . . . . I pound.
1 table-spoonful of butter, . . . . . I ounce.
Butter the size of an egg, .... 2 ounces.
Butter the size of a walnut, . . . . . 1 ounce.
1 solid pint of chopped meat, 1 pound. 10 eggs, . . . . . . 1 pound.
2 cupfuls of granulated sugar, . . . . 1 pound. I pint of granulated sugar, . . . . . 1 pound.
I pint of brown sugar, . . . . .17 ounces.
21/2 cupfuls of powdered sugar, . . . 1 pound.
1 cupful of rice, ...... 1/2 pound.
1 cupful of stemmed raisins, . , . .6 ounces.
1 cupful of cleaned and dried currants, . . 6 ounces.
1 cupful of grated bread-crumbs, . . . .2 ounces. 8 rounded table-spoonfuls of flour, 1 cupful. 8 rounded table-spoonfuls of sugar, . . 1 cupful. 8 rounded table-spoonfuls of butter, 1 cupful.
2 gills, . . . . . . 1 cupful.
1 common tumblerful, ..... I cupful.
3 table-spoonfuls of grated chocolate, . . 1 ounce. 1 pint, ....... 16 ounces.
1 pint, ....... 4 gills.
1 ounce, . . . . . .8 drachms (1/4 gill).
1 table-spoonful, . . . . 1/2 ounce. 16 drachms, ...... 1 ounce.
16 ounces, . . . . . . .1 pound.
4 gills, . . . . . . . .1 pint.
2 pints, . • . . . . 1 quart. 4 quarts, ....... I gallon.
 
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