[Sca-cooks] Pounds to ounce, Italian measurements

Antonia Calvo dama.antonia at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 16:10:27 PST 2010


Raphaella DiContini wrote:
> My break down of the ingredients as originally listed is: 
> 2 lb almond
> 1 lb Amido / starch
> 1/2 lb sugar
> 1/2 lb peeled pine nuts
> 2 oz cloves
>
> My extrapolation of 1/4 recipe: 
> 1/2 lb= 8 oz Almond
> 1/4 lb= 4 oz Amido / starch
> 1/8 lb= 2 oz Sugar
> 1/8 lb= 2 oz Pine nuts, peeled
> 1/2 oz cloves 
>   

Renaissance Italy used the Troy pound (~373g, 12oz to the lb).  So, the 
2oz of cloves in the original recipe represent 1/6lb (not 1/8).  That 
would equate to about 2/3oz for your extrapolation.




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