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The dry gallon's implicit value in the US system was originally one eighth of the Winchester bushel, which was a cylindrical measure of 18.5 inches (469.9 mm) in diameter and 8 inches (203.2 mm) in depth, making it an irrational number of cubic inches; its value to seven significant digits was 268.8025 cubic inches (4.404884 litres), from an ...
The Assize of Bread and Ale credited to Henry III, c. 1266, defined this bushel in terms of the wine gallon, [2] while the c. 1300 Assize of Weights and Measures usually credited to Edward I or II defined the London bushel in terms of the larger corn gallon. [3]
The imperial gallon was originally defined as 10 pounds (4.5359 kg) of water in 1824, and refined as exactly 4.54609 litres in 1985. Traditionally, when describing volumes, recipes commonly give measurements in the following units: Tumbler (10 fluid ounces; [29] [30] named after a typical drinking glass)
Food prices in the U.S. rose nearly 11% from 2021 to 2022, the largest year-to-year increase in more than 40 years. Although food inflation has somewhat leveled off at nearly 4% in 2023, many...
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Cornmeal is a meal (coarse flour) ground from dried corn (maize). It is a common staple food and is ground to coarse, medium, and fine consistencies, but it is not as fine as wheat flour can be. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In Mexico and Louisiana, very finely ground cornmeal is referred to as corn flour .
Succotash is a North American vegetable dish consisting primarily of sweet corn with lima beans or other shell beans. The name succotash is derived from the Narragansett word sahquttahhash, which means "broken corn kernels". [1] [2] Other ingredients may be added, such as onions, potatoes, turnips, tomatoes, bell peppers, corned beef, salt pork ...
You can’t blame Texans for dreaming that they will soon see prices for a gallon of gas go below $3. In fort Worth, we’ve seen a drop of 79 cents a gallon on average in the past month.