The complete Indian housekeeper & cook : giving the duties of mistress and servants, the general management of the house, and practical recipes for cooking in all its branches / by F.A. Steel & G. Gardiner.

  • Steel, Flora Annie Webster, 1847-1929.
Date:
1909
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The complete Indian housekeeper & cook : giving the duties of mistress and servants, the general management of the house, and practical recipes for cooking in all its branches / by F.A. Steel & G. Gardiner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    Liquids. 1 Teaspoon . , 1 drachm. 1 Dessertspoon . . 2 „ 1 Tablespoon . . i oz. 1 Sherry glass • >> 1 Teacup .... . | pint. 1 Tumbler or breakfast cup 1 „ 1 Peg tumbler 1 „ In giving recipes not in this book to a cook, simplify them as much as possible by substituting measures for weights. Those given in this book being simply proportional, it fol- lows that any unit of measurement may be taken. A recipe can be made of any size, the only condition being that the same measure, whether teaspoon or tumbler, be used throughout. For verification, however, and help in reducing other recipes to the same form, it may be said that one tablespoon full and pressed down by the hand, is held to equal one ounce of most things, save suet and bread crumbs. These are half an ounce. One English egg also equals two table- spoons; therefore the tablespoon will be found the best unit, and it is the one adopted in this book. Many English recipes speak of a gill: it is a quarter of a pint. Weight and measures for medicines must be accurate. The latter requires a properly graduated glass, but in emergency it may be remembered that a drop is neaily, byt as a rule not quite, one minim ; and that a new rupee weighs 180 grains or 3 drachms, an eight-anna bit 90 grains or ] 1 drachms, and a four-anna bit 45 grains or f of a drachm. Hence the following :— Since one drachm, apothecaries’ weight, equals 65S2 measured minims, then an eight-anna bit, which weighs 1^ drachms, is equal to, as near as possible, 98 measured minims, and a four-anna bit to 49 measured minims. Sixty minims go to one liquid drachm. Practically, therefore, a four-anna bit will be five-sixths of a measured drachm. On emergencies also, smaller weights can be made by beating a four-anna bit into a strip, and dividing it into three equal bits,— weighing, of course, fifteen grains each, and so on to other subdivisions. Any native jeweller will do this.