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A hogshead was also used as unit of measurement for sugar in Louisiana for most of the 19th century. Plantations were listed in sugar schedules by the number of hogsheads of sugar or molasses produced. Used for sugar in the 18th and 19th centuries in the British West Indies, a hogshead weighed on average 16 cwt / 813kg.
It was then placed into a closed vessel known as a vacuum pan, where it was boiled until the sugar in the syrup was crystallized. The crystallized sugar was then cooled and separated from any remaining molasses in a process known as purging. The final step was packing the sugar into hogshead barrels for transport to market. [40]
Image taken from Ten Views in the Island of Antigua, in which are represented the process of sugar making, and the employment of the negroes...From drawings made by W. Clark, etc. (With descriptive letterpress). Originally published/produced in London : Thomas Clay, 1823. Held and digitised by the British Library, and uploaded to Flickr Commons.
In US customary units, most units of volume exist both in a dry and a liquid version, with the same name, but different values: the dry hogshead, dry barrel, dry gallon, dry quart, dry pint, etc. The bushel and the peck are only used for dry goods. Imperial units of volume are the same for both dry and liquid goods. They have a different value ...
A hogshead of wine in the US holds 63 US gallons (52 imperial gallons; 240 litres); a hogshead of wine in the UK holds 300 litres (66 imperial gallons; 79 US gallons). Hydrogen sulfide The combination of hydrogen and sulfur dioxide which can produce a fault in the wine reminiscent of the smell of rotting eggs that may eventually develop in the ...
A hogshead is a large cask of liquid, and also a measure of volume. Hogshead may also refer to: Hogshead Publishing, a former British game company;
hogshead (Ale) In the mid-15th century the ale hogshead was defined as 48 ale or beer gallons (221.8153 L). In 1688 the ale hogshead was redefined to be 51 ale or beer gallons (235.67875 L). In 1803 the ale hogshead was again redefined to be 54 ale or beer gallons (249.54221 L), equivalent to the beer hogshead. hogshead (Beer)
The steps and balcony of the coffee-house were crowded with people bidding, or listening to the several auctioneers, who had elevated themselves upon a hogshead of sugar, a puncheon of rum, or a bale of cotton; and with Stentorian voices were exclaiming, "Once, twice. Once, twice." "Another cent." "Thank ye gentlemen."