[Sca-cooks] obscure measurements

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach 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

I was emptying out my mailbox (over 9000 messages) and ran across 
this a few days late. Sorry...

I vaguely remember cheese glasses (although what actually came in 
them, I don't know, because we didn't eat a lot of spreadable cheeses 
except for cream cheese). I seem to recall their resembling a 4-ounce 
juice glass. It seems to me that everyday, not-very-fancy glassware 
sets, once upon a time, and perhaps even now, had a miniature tumbler 
for juice, which held four ounces, which was sized and shaped in 
proportion to the larger water tumbler, which held 8 or maybe as much 
as ten ounces.

This is in addition to the typical lowball cocktail glass...

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