On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 7:02:37 PM UTC-4, Mr Macaw wrote:

How big is an acre?

Half the size of the property on which my house is located.

It's when you're comparing a large size with a small size it gets difficult. For example how many pints of milk can you get from a 7 gallon drum?

The largest size container of milk sold in the grocery store
is 1 gallon. Nobody cares about 7 gallon drums.

They buy a "sack of flour". Probably know that it is 5 pounds.
But, that's beside the point. Esp as flour tends to be consumed in
quantities of *cups*!

There's the problem again, you buy a sack of flour. How many cups can you get out of it?

18 or 19, depending on how it's packed when you measure it
in a standard measuring cup. Not that any home cook very
often uses more than 4 cups of flour, or maybe 8 for a big
batch of bread.

You need to know how much of your recipe you can make with each sack.

About 10 times a typical recipe of most things. Or a great
deal of gravy, which requires only a couple of tablespoons of
flour, depending on how much dripping you have to go with
it.

Cindy Hamilton