Originally Published:
Jubilee Cook Book, 1887
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Wheat flour, one pound is one quart.
Butter, when soft, one pound is one quart.
Granulated sugar, one pound and one ounce is one quart.
Brown sugar, one pound and two ounces is one quart.
Ten average sized eggs are one pound.
Four large tablespoonfuls make one-half a gill.
Sixteen large tablespoonfuls make one-half a pint.
A common sized tumbler holds one half a pint.
Twenty-five drops are equal to one teaspoonful.

In calculating for company allow one quart of oysters to every three persons for soup. One gallon of ice cream to every twenty persons. Five chickens or a ten pound turkey boiled and minced and fifteen heads of celery for chicken salad for fifty persons. For twenty guests, four dozen biscuits.