From | To
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3 teaspoons | 1 tablespoon
2 tablespoons | 1 fluid ounce
4 tablespoons | 1/4 cup
1 shot | 1 fluid ounce
8 fluid ounces | 1 cup
2 cups | 1 pint
2 pints | 1 quart
4 quarts | 1 gallon
4 gallons | 1 bucket
2 buckets | 1 bushel
15.5 gallons | 1 keg
From | To
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437.5 grain | 1 ounce (originally based upon seed of wheat/barley)
27.3 grain | 1 dram
16 dram | 1 ounce
16 ounces | 1 pound
100 pounds | 1 hundredweight
2000 pounds | 1 short ton
2204.62 pounds | 1 metric ton
2240 pounds | 1 long ton
Baking Ratios by Weight
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|Flr|Fat|Liq|Egg|Sug| Notes |
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| Bread | 5 | | 3 | | | Salt roughly 2% of flour's weight; yeast |
| | | | | | | 1tsp per 1 lb of flour; bread's |
| | | | | | | temperature 180-210F |
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| Pasta | 3 | | | 2 | | 1 egg per person; 1 egg == 2oz. |
| | | | | | | Roughly 2 eggs per cup of flour. |
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| Pie Dough | 3 | 2 | 1 | | | Butter and water must be as cold as |
| | | | | | | possible. Don't over handle dough. |
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| Biscuit | 3 | 1 | 2 | | | 1 tsp baking powder per 4oz of flour, |
| | | | | | | Use butter. |
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| Cookie | 3 | 2 | | | 1 | Use butter |
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| Pound/sponge| 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | Pound cake: mix butter, sugar, egg, and |
| cake | | | | | | flour. |
| | | | | | | Sponge cake 1: whip eggs and sugar first |
| | | | | | | Sponge cake 2: paddling sugar into butter|
| | | | | | | add eggs then dry ingredients |
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|Pate a' choux| 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | | |
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| Muffin | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | | baking powder |
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| Fritter | 2 | | 2 | 1 | | baking powder |
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| Crepe |1/2| | 1 | 1 | | can use volumes ratio if without scale |
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| Popover | 1 | | 2 | 1 | | no baking powder |
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Key:
Flr - Flour
Fat - Butter, lard, oil, shortening, etc
Liq - Milk, water, etc
Egg - Egg
Sug - Sugar
- 1/2 to 3/4 cup of honey for every 1 cup of sugar
- For every 1 cup of substituted honey, reduce other total liquids by 1/4 cup
- For every 1 cup of substituted honey, Add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- Reduce baking temperature by 25 degrees F.