[Sca-cooks] Measurements in de Casteau

[Terry Decker]

In the same vein, satin may be "centime" meaning 1/100 of a livre (pound) or 
roughly 4.895 grams between 1350 and adoption of the metric system.

A chopine would have been variable by region, but it was standardized in the 
18th Century to 465.7 milliliters or roughly a pint.

A verre is a glass or cup, actual size unknown, but 5 fl oz would be a good 
start.

And I can't find anything to match reumer.

Bear

>I can't help you with a source, but a sopine is probably a chopine in 
>modern
> French, and I wouldn't be suprised if a "voir" was a "verre". Of cours, 
> that
> doesn't help you at all ;-)
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:57 PM, <lilinah at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking at de Casteau's Ouverture de la Cuisine and i have noticed 
>> some
>> unfamiliar measurements. I wonder what source would explain them...
>>
>> satin - a measurement of spices
>> sopine - a measurement of liquid
>> un voir - a measurement of liquid, e.g., "de malvoisie ou vin d'Espagne"
>> un reumer - a measurement of liquid, e.g., "de vin d'Espagne"
>>
>> I don't just want to know what each is - i seem to have come across the
>> modern form of two of them - although i do want to know what they are. 
>> But i
>> am also looking for a resource that will explain medieval measurements, 
>> or,
>> as in this case, French measurements, when i run across others - bearing 
>> in
>> mind that many change over time exactly what quantity they are.
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