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Excerpt from Good Housekeeper's Cook Book The inexperienced housewife will find the following tables of weights and measures of wonderful help in her first culinary efforts; while even the experienced cook will find this ready reference arrangement of inestimable value when attempting recipes that, without these simple rules, would necessitate a waste of time in tedious weighing. Measuring-cups, holding one-half pint, divided into quarters or thirds, and measuring-spoons - teaspoons and tablespoons - may now be obtained in any hardware or department store. By having this kitchen measuring-set the young housekeeper will have much better success than by using the haphazard method - "a favorite measuring-cup and spoon" - of a generation ago, with its vexatious results. A case-knife, for leveling and dividing ingredients, should also be at hand, as it is almost indispensable in securing uniform measurements. It should be remembered that flour, meal, powdered and confectioners' sugar should be sifted before measuring. Mustard and baking powder, from standing in boxes, should be stirred to lighten; while salt, which is inclined to lump, should be rolled and crushed between sheets of strong manila paper. When a recipe calls for a "cupful" it means all the cup will hold; a "teaspoonful" or a "tablespoonful" means all the spoon will hold - the case-knife to be used in leveling the top. In measuring butter or other fats, pack firmly into the cup or spoon and level with the knife. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.