[Sca-cooks] obscure measurements

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

> >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...
>
> Adamantius

I think you can still get them--I remember some of the sets having a large
water tumbler, a scotch-on-the-rocks glass, and then the little juice
tumbler. We had cheese and jelly glasses when I was growing up. Can you
even get the Kraft spreads in the glasses anymore?

Margaret