Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1879 — Weights and Measures. [ARTICLE]

Weights and Measures.

All families are not supplied with scales and weights, and therefore the measures giveu below will be fouud convenient: About six drops of any thin liquid will fill a common sized teaspoon. Four tablespoonfuls, or half a gill, will fill a common sized wine-glass. . Four wine-glasses will fill a half pint measure, a commou tumbler, or a large coffee-cup. Ten eggs usually weigh one pound before they are broken. Eight large ones will weigh apiiund A tablespooufui of salt will weigh about one ounce. One pint of water or milk will weigh one pound. One pint of molasses will weigh one and one-quarter pounds. lhreetdble6pooufulsof bakingpowder should weigh < ne ounce. One qiart of flour weighs one pound. One quart of Indian-meal weighs one and a quarter pounds.