We recommend to all families that they should keep in the house a pair
of scales, (one of the scales deep enough to hold flour, sugar, &c.,
conveniently,) and a set of tin measures; as accuracy in proportioning
the ingredients is indispensable to success in cookery. It is best
to have the scales permanently fixed to a small beam projecting (for
instance) from one of the shelves of the store-room. This will preclude
the frequent inconvenience of their getting twisted, unlinked, and
otherwise out of order; a common consequence of putting them in and out
of their box, and carrying them from place to place. The weights (of
which there should be a set from two pounds to a quarter of an ounce)
ought carefully to be kept in the box, that none of them may be lost or
mislaid.
A set of tin measures (with small spouts or lips) from a gallon down
to half a jill, will be found very convenient in every kitchen; though
common pitchers, bowls, glasses, &c. may be substituted. It is also
well to have a set of wooden measures from a bushel to a quarter of a
peck.