Topic summary
Cooking measures
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Cooking weights and measures.
United States measures
† The fluid scruple has been properly defined on its own in the apothecaries' system as 1⁄24 fl oz, 1⁄3 fluid dram, or = 20 minims (≈ 1.23223 ml), and also 1⁄4 tsp. Mind that scruples and drams were pharmaceutical and intended to be specific and precise. Cooking measures tended to use what was on hand and/or actually used to consume what was being prepared, and not intended to be as formally scientific in its degree of precision.