At 05:24 PM 12/27/04 -0500, Martha Krieg wrote: >And for those concerned about liquid versus dry measure, the >authoritative Joy of Cooking says that in America, the "liquid/fluid" >measure is used not only for liquids, but also for flour, sugar, and >shortening and such-like....
The "dry" measures are fractions of a bushel, while the "liquid" measures are fractions of a gallon. Dry measures used to be used for selling produce, but a "quart" of strawberries in the supermarket is now the smaller liquid quart -- if not a pint or a cup -- and you can pretty much forget about any dry measure smaller than a peck. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we had a white Christmas. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
