How to convert 3.5 quarts flour into pounds....for antique recipies?

Question

I finally found my great grandmothers recipe...but it's measurement for dry weight are in quarts. ??? I spent hours on the net looking for a conversion. NOBODY IT SEEMS IS SMART ENOUGH TO CONVERT DRY MEASURMENTS.....HUMM... I remembered that I have an antique cookbook and I looked up "measures and weights". So I'm just gonna pass it on, incase anybody else runs across their antique recipies and they need a conversion. So Merry Christmas and good luck.

4 cups sifted flour equals 1 pound
1 quart of unsifted flour equals 1 pound
1 pint of sugar equals 1 pound (white granulated)
2 cups powdered sugar equal 1 pound

This life/recepie saving info was found in The White House Cook Book published in 1929 by The Saalfield Publishing Company Akron Ohio

Answer 1

a quart dry measure is 4.65 cups equivalent of liquid measure

a cup liquid is 8 fluid oz. but not a one for one dry to wet.

a quart measure dry is same as the volume used for berries etc sold by pt and quarts.

a cup dry is equivalent to 1.16 liquid measure

Therefore 3,5 quarts of flour is 16,25 cups

Answer 2

Thanks, but I don't know how many people really need that info. A quart is 32 fluid ounces, which is 4 cups. 3.5 quarts would be 14 cups. If I ran across a recipe calling for quarts of flour, I'd measure in cups. I have a 4 cup measuring cup, which also states "1 quart" on the same line where it says "4 cups". Don't need to know pounds, unless you are cooking in the UK or Europe and don't have a measuring cup.

A pint is 2 cups. I don't know why you were looking for hours. All you had to do was google "quart" and see the wikipedia article on that subject, which states that 1 quart equals 2 pints or 4 cups.

Answer 3

A dry cup and a wet cup measure the same. So a dry cup of packed flour is a cup. 3.5 quarts is 14 cups.