Stick (unit)
The stick may refer to several separate units, depending on the item being measured.
Length
In typography, the stick, stickful,[1][2] or stick of type[3] was an inexact length based on the size of the various composing sticks used by newspaper editors to assemble pieces of moveable type. In English-language papers, it was roughly equal to 2 column inches or 100–150 words.[3] In France, Spain, and Italy, sticks generally contained only between 1 and 4 lines of text each.[2] A column was notionally equal to 10 sticks.[4][5]
Mass
In American cooking, a stick of butter is taken to be 4 ounces[6] (about 113 g).[7] In Australian cooking, a stick of butter is a larger unit of 250 g (about 9 ounces).[7]
Volume
In American cooking, a stick of butter may also be understood as ½ cup or 8 tablespoons[6] (about 125 mL).[7]
See also
References
Citations
- ↑ Jackson 1937, p. 70.
- 1 2 Pasko (1894).
- 1 2 Williamson (1984), p. xliii.
- ↑ OED (1916).
- ↑ Campbell-Copeland (1893), p. 39.
- 1 2 Bloom (2007), p. 31.
- 1 2 3 Butter Baking (2015).
Bibliography
- "stick, n.¹", Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1916.
- Bloom, Carole (2007), The Essential Baker: The Comprehensive Guide to Baking with Chocolate, Fruit, Nuts, Spices, and Other Ingredients, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.
- Natasha (2015), "Baking Conversions", Butter Baking: A Blog of Baked Goods, retrieved 30 April 2015.
- Campbell-Copeland, Thomas (1893), The Ladder of Journalism: How to Climb It, New York: Gibb Bros & Morgan for Allan Forman.
- Jackson, Hartley Everett (1937), 26 Lead Soldiers: Printing Types, Methods, Machines, Redwood City: Stanford University Press.
- Pasko, Wesley Washington (1894), "Stickful", American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking: Containing a History of These Arts in Europe and America, with Definitions of Technical Terms and Biographical Sketches, New York: Howard Lockwood & Co., p. 529.
- Williamson, Richard (1984), "Glossary", Journalist 3&2, Vol. 1, Naval Education & Training Program Development Center.
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