HERB - A soap question Fw: [SCA-Caid]Medieval Weights andMeasures Quest...
sunshinegirl
sunshinegirl at steward-net.com
Sun Jun 20 19:18:14 PDT 1999
Thanks. Not that I fully understand any of this. For example, what is a
SEAM?
COOMB?
QUARTER?
And how in the world does that relate to "halfe a strike of Ashen ashes, "?
Any of you Soapmakers care to elaborate?
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> From: Hemophelia at aol.com
> To: herbalist at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: Re: HERB - A soap question Fw: [SCA-Caid]Medieval Weights
andMeasures Quest...
> Date: Sunday, June 20, 1999 7:44 PM
>
> I asked the resident brewer. . .he looked it up in one of his books. .
.this
> was the answer he gave me. . .
>
> Zupko (the author of the book. . .) defines a strike as:
> A measure of capacity for grain generally containing 2 bushels (about
7.05
> dekaliters) and equal to 1/4 SEAM. In some shires, however, strikes of
1/2
> to 4 bushels (about 1.76 to about 14.10 dekaliter) were occasionally
used.
> The strike was commonly called the half-coomb. Since the establishment
of
> the Imperial system in 1824 the strike has been reconed at 2 bushel
(7.274
> dekaliter) and equal to 1/2 COOMB and 1/4 QUARTER. Occasionally, it was
> abbreviated str.
>
>
> Reference -
> Zupko, Ronald Edward. A Dictionary of English Weights and Measures, The
> Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. University of Wisconsin Press,
1968.
>
> Helene
>
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