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1 US pt = 16 US fl oz: 16.65 imp oz: 1 US pint. pint (imp.) 568.26 mL: 19.2 US fl oz: 1 imp. pt = 20 imp oz: Beer sales in Britain and the Commonwealth are based on multiples of 1 ⁄ 3, 1 ⁄ 2, and full imperial pints. [note 2] Imperial-measure glasses were 568 mL, and metric-measure glasses round up to 570 mL. Beer bottles in the UK were ...
Three kinds of quarts are currently used: the liquid quart and dry quart of the US customary system and the imperial quart of the British imperial system. All are roughly equal to one liter. It is divided into two pints or (in the US) four cups. Historically, the exact size of the quart has varied with the different values of gallons over time ...
Volume may be measured either in terms of units of cubic length or with specific volume units. The units of cubic length (the cubic inch, cubic foot, cubic mile, etc.) are the same in the imperial and US customary systems, but they differ in their specific units of volume (the bushel, gallon, fluid ounce, etc.).
In L. Frank Baum's The Patchwork Girl of Oz, one of the ingredients required for a magic spell is a gill of water from a dark well.In chapter 19, the obscure unit is used for humor including a pun with the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill", which also involved a well.
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pint (pt) 20: 1 568.26125 34.677 19.215 1.2009 quart (qt) 40: 2 1,136.5225 69.355 38.430 2.4019 gallon (gal) 160: 8 4,546.09 277.42 153.72 9.6076 Note: The millilitre figures are exact whereas the cubic-inch and US measure figures are to five significant digits. Note 2: The imperial gallon is equal to 10 lbs of water.
Title page of Ella Mae Ives’ 750-page, 1928 third edition of the Dispatch Cook Book. The recipes are simple and often offer alternatives or substitutions allowing home cooks of the period to ...
The Perfect Scrambled Egg Method. I don't stray from my tried-and-true ratio, but have introduced two big changes: First, the splash of cream is replaced by a small splash of good olive oil.