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Cooking weights and measures. Measuring spoons (metric) – 1 mL, 5 mL, 15 mL, 50 mL, 100 mL, 125 mL. Measuring spoons (customary units) In recipes, quantities of ingredients may be specified by mass (commonly called weight), by volume, or by count . For most of history, most cookbooks did not specify quantities precisely, instead talking of "a ...
Milk equivalent. Milk equivalent is a measure of the quantity of fluid milk used in a processed dairy product. Measured on a milkfat basis, it takes about 21.8 pounds of farm milk to make a pound of butter, and about 9.2 pounds to make a pound of American cheese. Measured on a skim solids basis, it takes about 11.6 pounds of farm milk to make a ...
Dutch cask – a British unit of mass, used for butter and cheese. Equal to 112 lb (51 kg). Esterling; Faggot – has multiple meanings in metrology. As relevant to this article, it was a unit of mass, being 120 lb (54 kg). Grzywna; Keel – a UK unit of mass for coal, equaling 21,540.19446656 kg (47,488.0000000 lb) [7]: 48
The table below lists units supported by {{convert}}. More complete lists are linked for each dimension. For a complete list of all dimensions, see full list of units. {{Convert}} uses unit-codes, which are similar to, but not necessarily exactly the same as, the usual written abbreviation for a given unit. These unit-codes are displayed in ...
Print butter. Print butter[ 1] is an obsolete term for butter that was sold in wrappers printed with "some emblematic device" as a branding device [ 2][ 3] as modern butter almost always is. Originally the wrappers were normally cloth and sometimes washed and returned for re-use by the retailer. [ 2] By the late 19th century greaseproof paper ...
Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor that changes the unit without changing the quantity. This is also often loosely taken to include replacement of a quantity with a corresponding quantity that describes the same physical property ...
The general relationship between absorbed dose and equivalent dose can be represented as. H = Q ⋅ D. where H is the equivalent dose, D is the absorbed dose, and Q is a dimensionless quality factor. Thus, for any quantity of D measured in Gy, the numerical value for H measured in Sv may be different.
Butter sold in the United States is assigned one of three letter grades; AA, A, and B. [ 1] By a 1923 act of Congress, all butter sold in the United States must be composed of at least 80% milkfat. [ 2] Butter is graded based on the sweetness of its flavor, the quality of cream the butter was made from, the smoothness of its texture, and the ...