Gordy,
Regarding your statement of February 2nd 2005 @ 7:23 p.m.
''You will find the following recipes suitable for cooking aboard a small cruising yacht. These, along with some time honored tips on the buying and storage of ingredients, should also be of use to hikers and campers. For all my recipes I have used common weights and measures. One thing that you learn very quickly when you start to cook at sea, is that recipes requiring the ingredients to be weighed are useless. With this in mind, I have used fluid cup, fluid tablespoon, and fluid recipespoon measures wherever possible. But for the sake of completeness, I have listed below all the abbreviations used for cooking weights and measures.''
FLUID MEASURE
1.4 cu.' = 1 fl. blackjack
1.2 cu.' = 1 fl. firkin
0.6 cu.' = 1 fl. pin
230.400 cu.'' = 1 fl.gal. = 2 fl.pot. = 4 fl.qt. = 8 fl.pt. = 128 fl.oz.
115.200 cu.= 1 fl.pot. = 2 fl.qt. = 4 fl.pt. = 64 fl.oz.
57.600 cu.'' = 1 fl.qt. = 2 fl.pt. = 32 fl.oz.
28.800 cu.'' = 1 fl.pt. = 16 fl.oz.
14.400 cu.'' = 1 fl. cup = 2 fl. jills = 4 fl. jacks = 8 fl.oz.
7.200 cu.'' = 1 fl. jill = 2 fl. jacks = 4 fl.oz.
3.600 cu.'' = 1 fl. jack = 2 fl.oz.
1.800 cu.'' = 1 fl.oz.
0.900 cu.'' = 1 fl.tbs. = 3 fl.rsp. = 6 fl. coffeesp. = 12 fl.scr. = 1/2 fl.oz.
0.300 cu.'' = 1 fl.rsp. = 2 fl. coffeesp. = 4 fl.scr. = 1/6 fl.oz.
0.150 cu.'' = 1 fl. coffeesp. = 2 fl.scr. = 1/12 fl.oz.
0.075 cu.'' = 1 fl.dp. = 1/24 fl.oz.
DRY MEASURE
2150.400 cu.'' = 1 dry bushel
1075.200 cu.'' = 1 dry bucket
537.600 cu.'' = 1 dry peck
268.800 cu.'' = 1 dry gal. = 2 dry pot. = 4 dry qt. = 8 fl.pt. = 149 1/3 fl.oz.
134.400 cu.'' = 1 dry pot. = 2 dry qt. = 4 dry pt. = 74 2/3 fl.oz.
67.200 cu.'' = 1 dry qt. = 2 dry pt. = 37 1/3 fl.oz.
33.600 cu.'' = 1 dry pt. = 18 2/3 fl.oz.
AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT
230.400 cu.'' = 1 av.gal. wine
115.200 cu.= 1 av.pot wine
57.600 cu.'' = 1 av.qt. wine
28.800 cu.'' = 1 av.lb. wine
14.400 cu.'' = 1 av. cup wine
7.200 cu.'' = 1 av. jill wine
3.600 cu.'' = 1 av. jack wine
1.800 cu.'' = 1 av.oz. wine
0.900 cu.'' = 1 av.tbs. wine
0.300 cu.'' = 1 av.rsp. wine
0.150 cu.'' = 1 av. coffeesp. wine
0.075 cu.'' = 1 av.dp. wine
268.800 cu.'' = 1 av.gal. wheat
134.400 cu.'' = 1 av.pot. wheat
67.200 cu.'' = 1 av.qt. wheat
33.600 cu.'' = 1 av.lb. wheat
Gordy, I guess your experience just shows why trappers, hunters, fishermen, guides, outfitters, and frontiersmen, stick to fluid measure for cooking. Even if you have built a solid cookhouse on dry land where weighing is a possibility, fluid measure for cooking is faster.
Info @
http://www.weights-and-measures.com
And topics:
Common Fluid Measure & Common Dry Measure
old Avoirdupois Weight
New Avoirdupois Weight
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