[Sca-cooks] volume of a pottle/pottel of wine

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Wed Feb 20 04:13:25 PST 2013


The MED says

potel(le (n.) Also pottel. [OF potel & ML potellus.]

(a) A vessel; vessel of half the capacity of the associated gallon measure; a pottle; also, a vessel for dry measure observing similar proportions; (b) a liquid measure equal to half the associated gallon; also, an equivalent dry measure; (c) met ~, a measured pottle; pote (bagge) of a ~, a pot (bag) holding one pottle; from ~ til quarte, until reduced from a half-gallon to a quart; until reduced by one half; from thre potelles to thre pintes, until reduced from one and a half gallons to three pints; until reduced by three quarters; (d) ~ botel (canne, possenet, pot), a bottle (container, pot) of half-gallon measure; (e) glossing L lagena:?a vessel of gallon measure, ?a gallon measure; (f) in surnames.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=byte&byte=146426898&egdisplay=compact&egs=146439922

The Conversion Center lists
Definition and details for pottle :
Pottle, from the French potel, is a type of bottle equal to 1/2 Imperial gallons.
Definition and details for gallon (Scotland) :
Scottish gallon is a traditional unit of volume equal to 3 imperial gallons or 13.63 liters.
Definition and details for pottle :
Pottle, from the French potel, is a type of bottle equal to 1/2 Imperial gallons.
Definition and details for gallon (standard imperial) :
Standard imperial gallon is a unit of volume equal to about 277.419 in3 or exactly 4.54609 liters. This unit was defined as the volume of exactly 10 pounds of distilled water under precisely defined conditions.

Johnnae

On Feb 20, 2013, at 6:31 AM, Michelle Dean wrote:

> Evening all
> 
> I'm trying to find out the volume of a pottel or pottle of wine for a
> particular recipe snipped The only information I have found is that a pottel contains a
> half-gallon, or 2.3 litres (although the website that made that statement
> has not cited a source for that measurement).



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