Weights & Measures used in Picayune Creole Cook Book

When using old world recipes you will need a good measurement chart.  This one is from the 1901 Times Picayune Creole Cookbook. 

Comparative Table of Weights and Measures Used in The Times- Picayune Creole Cook Book.

Every housekeeper should have for her own convenience and for the correct measurement of ingredients used in making any dish, where exact measurements are absolutely necessary to success, a pair of scales, and a set of tin or glass measures with small lips or spouts; these measures should range from half a gill to one gallon. But as so few housekeepers think of the necessity of having such measures until they set to making preparations where measurements must be exact, the following carefully prepared table may be referred to with absolute reliance upon the comparative quantities given:

Twenty-five drops of thin liquid equal half a teaspoonful.
Four teaspoonfuls of solid or liquid equal one tablespoonful of solid or liquid.
Four tablespoonfuls equal one wine-glassful or one-half gill.
One wineglassful equals half a gill or one-quarter of a cup.
Two wineglassfuls equal one gill or half a cup.
Two gills equal one teacupful, or sixteen tablespoonfuls.
One teacupful or one kitchen cupful equals half a pint.
Two teacupfuls or two kitchen cupfuls equal one pint.
Two pints equal one quart.
Four quarts equal one gallon.
One tablespoonful of liquid equals half an ounce.
Two tablespoonfuls equal one ounce.
One level tablespoonful of flour equals half an ounce.
Two level tablespoonfuls solid equal one ounce liquid.
Sixteen ounces equal one pound.
One pound of solid is equal to one pint of liquid.
One quart of unsifted flour equals one pound.
Four teacupfuls of sifted flour equal one pound.
Three cups of cornmeal equal one pound.
One and one-half pints of cornmeal equal one pound.
One pint or two cups of granulated sugar equal one pound.
One pint or two cups of brown sugar equal one pound.
Two and one-half cupfuls of white pulverized sugar equal one pound.
One well-rounded tablespoonful of butter equals one ounce.
One tablespoonful of salt equals one ounce.
One teacupful of cold, hard butter, pressed down, equals half a pound.
Two cups of cold butter, pressed down, equal one pound.
One pint of finely chopped meat, solidly packed, equals one pound.
An ordinary-sized tumblerful equal to half a pint, or one teacupful.
Ten eggs equal one pound. A dash of pepper is equal to one eighth of a teaspoonful