Dry pint containers hold about two and a half cups.
In the British system, units of dry and liquid capacity are the same, while in the United States they differ; the liquid and dry pint in Britain both equal 0.568 cubic decimetre, while the U.S. liquid pint is 0.473 cubic decimetre, and the U.S. dry pint is 0.551 cubic decimetre.
In the United States the unit for dry measure is slightly different from that for liquid measure; a U.S. dry pint is 33.6 cubic inches (550.6 cubic cm), while a U.S. liquid pint is 28.9 cubic inches (473.2 cubic cm).
Naturally, the focus is on Devon and West Country breweries, such as Jollyboat and Branscombe Vale, although I enjoyed a beautifully dry pint of North Cotswold's pale Shag Weaver (£3).
The U.S. liquid quart is equal to two liquid pints, or one-fourth U.S. gallon (57.75 cubic inches, or 946.35 cubic cm); and the dry quart is equal to two dry pints, or 1/32 bushel (67.2 cubic inches, or 1,101.22 cubic cm).
It fixes the cubic contents for dry half-pint, pint, and quart.
It contains bergamot, camomile and rosemary, and comes with a muslin washcloth that proved something of a nuisance (no place for it to dry) in a pint-size Manhattan bathroom.
His death wasn't due to any lack of effort on the part of his doctors: they gave him an enema, covered his feet and legs with a wheat-bran poultice, applied a salve and a "preparation of dried beetles" to his throat, and bled him almost dry — about five pints, nearly half the blood in his body, drawn in less than a day.
The first evening I soaked there, alone in the gloaming, a pint of dry British cider at hand, watching the sky darken and the ship's wake spread out, I was keenly aware that this was perhaps among the top 200 moments of my life.
Peaches With Ice Cream And Raspberry Sauce Total time: 30 minutes 8 ripe peaches 1/2 cup vanilla sugar 1/2 cup dry white wine 1 pint fresh raspberries (or 1 10-ounce package frozen) 2 tablespoons lemon juice Vanilla ice cream Sprigs of mint to garnish. 1. Bring enough water to cover the peaches to a boil in a large sauce pan.
(Mr. Camp, who wrote this column for 20 years, first published his book in 1958, and the Wild Duck Press, 90 Soldiers Place, Buffalo, N.Y. 14222, issued a 25th anniversary edition in 1983). It calls for boiling for one minute in a saucepan a marinade of a pint of dry white wine, a large red onion sliced thin, 1 bay leaf, 1/4-teaspoon of basil, 6 cloves, 2 pinches of ginger, 1 tsp.
