WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
I
- 3 teaspoonfuls, dry = 1 tablespoonful.
- 4 teaspoonfuls, liquid = 1 tablespoonful.
- 4 tablespoonfuls, liquid = 1 wineglassful = ½ gill.
- 2 wineglassfuls, liquid = 1 gill = ½ cup.
- 16 tablespoonfuls, liquid = 2 gills = 1 cup.
- 12 rounded tablespoonfuls, dry = 1 cup.
- ½ pint, liquid = 1 cup.
- 4 wineglasses = 1 cup.
- ¼ lb. of flour = 1 cup.
- ½ lb. granulated sugar = 1 cup.
- ½ lb. butter, solid = 1 cup.
- 4 gills = 1 pint.
- 2 cups = 1 pint.
- 2 pints = 1 quart.
- 4 quarts = 1 gallon.
II
- 1 tablespoonful, heaped, granulated sugar = 1 ounce.
- 1 tablespoonful, rounded, butter = 1 ounce.
- 1 tablespoonful, liquid = ½ ounce.
- 1 tablespoonful, rounded, flour = ½ ounce.
- 1 tablespoonful, rounded, coffee = ½ ounce.
- 1 tablespoonful, rounded, powdered sugar = ½ ounce.
- 16 ounces = 1 pound.
- 4 cups of flour = 1 pound = 1 quart.
- 2 cups butter, solid = 1 pound.
- 2 cups granulated sugar = 1 pound.
- 2½ cups powdered sugar = 1 pound.
- 2 cups or 1 pint water or milk = 1 pound.
- 1 pint chopped meat, solid = 1 pound.
- 10 eggs = 1 pound.
XIII
WASHING AND IRONING
THE day when we wear paper clothes and rarely wear them twice has not yet come. Meanwhile washing and ironing must be done, either in the home or elsewhere. Even when this work has been banished to a laundry or a house on a back street, it is yet desirable to have some knowledge of its processes, that when something goes wrong we may be able to tell what the trouble is.
The laundry, like the kitchen, should be light coloured, cleanly, orderly and furnished only with articles needed for the work. I was taken in to see a laundry not long ago which had pale green walls and two sunny windows. It contained appliances for the work, a substantial laundress and a highly coloured picture of the Madonna. There was also a cricket, not the kind you sit on, but the kind that chirps.