Las Sun Nov Bit Bob

Last year I was on (and on) about liquid measure. The next section 266 from Pendlebury's New School Arithmetic (1924) is shown above. A quartern loaf is 2¼ times the size of your standard 800g sliced pan: I guess, a hundred years ago, families were bigger. A little digging reveals that this loaf starts with a quarter peck [14 lb] of flour which is a quarter of a 56lb bushel of wheat flour. When we were bone-poor students in Dublin 50 years ago, we'd go to Moore Street market and buy ¼ stone of potatoes - same weight of carbs as the loaf! = 3½ lb = 1.6 kg. Boiled up with chopped cabbage, a bit of onion and butter it was rib-stickin' good.

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