As weights increase, a dram is 3 scruples, an ounce is 8 drams, and a pound is 12 ounces. Scruple comes from the Latin word meaning “small sharp stone”; today's scruples weigh 1.296 grams. It has sometimes been used to mean “a minute quantity” or “iota,” as in this line ...
You’ll most often hear people talk about how they’re going to enjoy a dram of Scotch or pour themselves a wee dram, which is a unit of measure not often used in the United States. It usually refers to a “small amount” but it actually has a definition according to the U.S. C...
88 thoughts on “How much is a dram of Scotch?” Cory on February 9, 2011 at 10:46 am said: But in practice, nobody drinks that small of a glass. A normal pour in the UK is 1.25 imperial fluid ounces, so by definition, 10 drams. When you’re at home, you pour whatever yo...
I’m not gonna lie, lye used to scare the stuffing out of me, and that was the reason it took me so many years to finally make soap. There was an incident in our community involving a young child and lye that compounded my fear, and since I lived at home with so many young sibli...
re looking for, and for this you’re going to need to make a trip to your local Mediterranean or Latin American market forpomegranate molassesandorange blossom water. I add two ounces of the molasses and a teaspoon of the orange blossom water to my warm mix and stir again until every...
syrup with an equal amount of lemon juice and one-and-a-half ounces of Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey—“It has enough structure to stand up to the sweetness of the syrup without overpowering it,” she says—topped with hot water in one of the bar’s vintage porcelain ...
Add it to 8 ounces (240 milliliters) of water, along with the juice of half a lemon and 1 teaspoon of honey. Bring everything to a boil in a small saucepan, then pour the mixture through a strainer into a mug. Add 1 ounce (30 milliliters) of whiskey and stir. Drink the tonic...