Black Mead

[tbhaman]

Have a recipe for Black Mead utilizing black currants. It indicates using black currants but I have pure black currant juice. How do pounds of this fruit translate to ounces?

 

[bernardsmith]

16 oz is always 1 lb. That applies to feathers or lead shot. If you mean how many lbs of fruit do you need to juice to obtain a gallon I would think close to 10 lbs...

 

[Maylar]

16 oz is always 1 lb. That applies to feathers or lead shot.

As my dad used to say, "A pint's a pound the world around".

 

[dyqik]

As my dad used to say, "A pint's a pound the world around".

Except that's actually only true in the US. A pint of water at STP is 1lb, 4oz in the UK, and anywhere that the UK influenced.

In Germany, ein Pfund (cognate with pound) is 500g.

 

[Pkrd]

As my dad used to say, "A pint's a pound the world around".

It legally doesn't exist here, so if you ask for a pint you get something from 15 to 20oz.

 

[bernardsmith]

It legally doesn't exist here, so if you ask for a pint you get something from 15 to 20oz.

Actually, in Britain a pint of beer is poured in a jar that is marked where the head may start. And you better not let that head begin a hair into that mark. So in Britain a pint is a pint is a pint...
And to dyqik's point: a US gallon is 3.78541 liters , a British gallon is 4.54609 liters so a British pint is a great deal larger than a US pint... so if a gallon of water weighs 8 lbs and so 1 pint weighs 1 lb in the US ... a pint in Britain will weigh more than a lb..