[Sca-cooks] gallons and pottles (Elizabethan)

[Kirrily Robert]

Does anyone know the volume of a "gallon" and a "pottle" in Elizabethan
terms?  It needn't be absolute, either -- if a pottle is usually half a
gallon, that's enough for me.

(I'm working on the recipe for green ginger upon sirop that I posted a
while ago, and while it doesn't specify how much ginger to start with,
it does go on to say "take of wine a gallon and vinegar a pottle and
honey a pottle" for the syrup.  So as long as I get the proportions
right, that's enough for me.

If nobody posts, I'm going to assume about a 3:1 ratio, I think.

Yours,

Katherine


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