It is now in the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. This is a standard weight from Manchester both dated 1754 and made of cast brass. Merchants weights and measures would be checked against this to make sure they weren't trying to cheat their customers. Historically the number of pounds in a stone varied by commodity, and was not the same in all times and places even for one commodity.Ĭities in England would have official standard weights and measures. The stone was originally used for weighing agricultural commodities. There are more advanced conversions on the tables page, but here is a simple conversion table (or see bottom of this page). The British weigh themselves in stone and the Americans weigh themselves in pounds. There is a troy pound which is a different weight. The eggs also weigh 4oz, so the raw ingredients weigh a pound in total. The ingredients are 4oz (quarter pound) of self-raising flour, sugar, butter and 2 eggs. Now no-one in Britain makes pound cakes but Victoria sponges are common, both as cakes and puddings such as Eve's Pudding. The Victorians in Britain also baked pound cakes, but added a pound of dried fruits, such as raisins. It is sometimes baked in a tin with a hole in the middle, called a Bundt pan, or a loaf tin, or a round tin. The American pound cake was originally so-called, because it used a pound each of its main ingredients, flour, sugar, butter, eggs. Pooh sensed that the rhythm required an extra (poetic) foot. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come." The old sterling money (pre-decimal) was £.s.d or "Pounds, shillings and pence". Piglet didn't think that the shillings ought to be there, but Pooh explained "They wanted to come in after the pounds, so I let them. He always seem bigger because of his bounces. Winnie the Pooh wrote a poem about Tigger:īut whatever his weight in pounds, shillings and ounces, In fact, a pound (money) was originally a pound (weight) of silver, and the symbol for pound (money) £ is a stylised L. It was defined in England since Ethelred the Unready (968-1016). While we're talking about cooking, oven temperatures are on this website here.Ī pound is always written as "lb" to prevent confusion with pound money "£". Old fashioned scales had metal weights which were balanced against what you were weighing (see right and below). The British tend to weigh cooking ingredients rather than use cups (a volume measure). "Oncia" seems to be the modern Italian for ounce (although they use metric measures now, of course) and I suppose that "onza" is a variant of this. The abbreviation "oz" comes from 15th century Italian, an abbreviation of "onza". The apothecaries ounce and troy ounce are now different weights. The ounce is a sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois, but it used to be a twelfth part of a pound troy. 'Ounce' comes from the Latin uncia or twelfth part. Other weight systems include troy weights and apothecaries' weights. These were described like that in the tables that we had to learn. These weights are avoirdupois (which comes from Old French "to have weight"). Well-known units - Everyone knew these and used them constantly. What is your weight in bees? Or elephants? Which is heavier, a pound of lead or a pound of feathers? Troy weights - pennyweight, troy ounce, troy poundĪpothecaries' weights - scruple, apothecaries' drachm, apothecaries' ounce, apothecaries' pound Large units (avoirdupois) - quarter, hundredweight (cwt), ton ? Well-known units (avoirdupois) - ounce (oz), pound (lb), stone There are more advanced conversions on the tables page. The metric equivalents on this page are also all to 2 decimal places. There is a quick convertor below which gives an answer rounded to 2 decimal places. This page gives Imperial units of weight.
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