Miss Leslie's lady's new receipt-book : a useful guide for large or small families, containing directions for cooking, preserving, pickling, and preparing the following articles according to the most new and approved receipts, viz.: soups, fish, meats, vegetables, poultry, oysters, game, puddings, pies, tarts, custards, ice creams, blancmange, cakes, confectionary, sweetmeats, jellies, syrups, cordials, candies, perfumery, etc.

  • Leslie, Eliza, 1787-1858.
Date:
1851
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Miss Leslie's lady's new receipt-book : a useful guide for large or small families, containing directions for cooking, preserving, pickling, and preparing the following articles according to the most new and approved receipts, viz.: soups, fish, meats, vegetables, poultry, oysters, game, puddings, pies, tarts, custards, ice creams, blancmange, cakes, confectionary, sweetmeats, jellies, syrups, cordials, candies, perfumery, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    WEIGHT AND MEASURE. Wheat flour , . . one pound of 16 ounces . is one quart Indian meal .... one pound 2 ounces . . is one quart. Butter, when soft, . . one pound 1 ounce . . is one quart. Loaf-sugar, broken up, one pound is one quart. White sugar, powdered, one pound 1 ounce . . is one quart. Best brown sugar . . one pound 2 ounces . . is one quart. Eggs ten eggs .... weigh one pound. LIQUID MEASURE. Four large table-spoonfuls .... are .... half a jill. Eight large table-spoonfuls . . . are .... one jill. Two jills are .... half a pint A common-sized tumbler .... holds . . . half a pint. A common-sized wine-glass . . . holds about . half a jill. Two pints are .... one quart. Four quarts are .... one gallon. About twenty-five drops of any thin liquid will fill a common- sized tea-spoon. Four table-spoonfuls will generally fill a common-sized wine- glass. Four wine-glasses will fill a half-pint tumbler, or a large coffee- cup. A quart black bottle holds in reality about a pint and a half; sometimes not so much. A table-spoonful of salt is about one ounce. DRY MEASURE. Half a gallon is ... a quarter of a peck. One gallon is . . . half a peck. Two gallons are . . one peck. Four gallon^ are . . half a bushel. • • • • Eight gallons are . . one bushel. Throughout this book, the pound is nvoirdupois weight—sixteen ounces.