Table of Weights and Measures

For those persons who have neither scales nor weights

Mrs. Chadwick’s Home Cookery, 1853  

1 lb of wheat flour = 1 quart

1 lb. 2 oz of Indian meal = 1 quart

1 lb butter when soft = 1 quart

1 lb of broken loaf sugar, broken up = 1 quart

1 lb 1 oz powdered loaf sugar = 1 quart

1 lb 1 oz best brown sugar = 1 quart

10 eggs = 1 pound

1 tablespoon = 1 oz

16 large tablespoonfuls = ½ pint

8 large tablespoonfuls = 1 gill

4 large tablespoonfuls = ½ gill

12 drops thin liquid = 1 tsp

1 gallon = 8 pints

1 pint = 16 oz

1 oz = 8 drachms

A common tumbler = ½ pint or 8 oz

A common wineglass (not a modern wineglass) = ½ gill or 4 large tablespoons

4 wineglasses (not a modern wineglass) = ½ pint or

8 oz Common teacup = 6 oz        

Dry Measure Half a gallon = ¼ peck

One gallo n = ½ peck

Two gallon = one peck

Four gallons = half a bushel

Eight gallons = one bushel