[CHAPTER XXXIV.]
MISCELLANEOUS ADVICE, AND SUPPLEMENTARY RECEIPTS.
Weights and Measures.
It is a good plan to have a particular measure cup kept for the purpose, and after once weighing all those receipts that are given by weight, to measure the quantity by this cup, and then write the measures in your receipt book, and keep the cup only for this purpose. The following is some guide in judging of the relative proportion between measures and weights.
A quart of flour, or of sifted loaf sugar, or of softened butter, each weigh about a pound. The flour, if sifted, must be heaped.
A pint equals eight ounces.
A half a pint equals four ounces.
One gill equals two ounces.
Half a gill equals one ounce.
A quart of brown sugar, or of Indian meal, equals a pound and two ounces of the same.