Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million / Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts

by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

4544. G.—Measures for Housekeepers.[D]

Wheat Flour,	1 lb.		is	1 quart
Indian Meal,	1 "	2 oz.	"	1 "
Butter, when soft,	1 "		"	1 "
Loaf Sugar, broken	1 "		"	1 "
White Sugar, powdered	1 "	1 oz.	"	1 "
Best Brown Sugar,	1 "	2 oz.	"	1 "
Eggs,	10	eggs	are	1 lb.
Flour,	8	quarts	"	1 peck.
Flour,	4	pecks	"	1 bus.

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4545.[E]

LIQUIDS.

16	large table-spoonsful	are	half a pint
8	large table-spoonsful	are	one gill
4	large table-spoonsful	are	half a gill
2	gills	are	half a pint
2	pints	are	one quart
4	quarts	are	one gallon
A	common-sized tumbler holds		half a pint
A	common-sized wine-glass holds		half a gill
25	drops are equal to		one teaspoonful

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FOOTNOTES:

[A] "A Biographical Dictionary of Distinguished Women."

[B] The rural population of America is now over twenty millions.