[Sca-cooks] obscure measurements

[Stefan li Rous]

Cailte mentioned:
> but i think that watered down wine and the cheese glass full of beer at
> crabfeasts de-mystified drinking for us kids, which is a good thing.
A "cheese glass"? LoL! I imagine what you are speaking of are the tiny, 
glass jars that pimento cheese and similar items came (come?) in. I 
think I've still got one or two around, although I think they are a bit 
small to be useful, these days. I guess I drink more juice than I used 
to.

But this got me to thinking about obscure measurements and I could see 
this being used these days and someone in a hundred years trying to 
figure out just how much a cheese glass of something was. Sort of like 
some of the measures that have come up here before from a Victorian 
(tea?) spoon measure to how long a particular prayer was, which was 
used for timing in a medieval recipe.

Stefan
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