Gazel (unit)
Gazel , also Gatzl, was a volume measure in Munich for liquids. It was called the milk measure. The measure is based on the name Gatzen, Gatz'n, for copper dishes for scooping liquids. There were the beer and milk gauzes. Smaller dimensions were the Gätzlein for a quarter of a measure. The Mäßgatzen was half (Mäß =) Gatzen.
- 1 Gazel = 1 Seidel / Seidl / Seitl = 1 quarter degree (Austria.) = ¼ degree (Austria.) = ⅓ measure (bayr.) = 0.357 liter
literature
- Anna Maria Neudecker: The Bavarian cook in Bohemia. Mayr'sche Buchhandlung Salzburg 1826, p. XXI.
- Anna Maria Neudecker: Die Salzburgische Köchin: A book that is designed for both elegant and ordinary kitchens, and which can be used with particular benefit in both. Mayr'sche Buchhandlung Salzburg 1810, p. XXVIII.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander von Lengerke: Landwirthschaftliches Conversations-Lexikon for practitioners and laypeople. Volume 2, JG Calve'sche Buchhandlung, Prague 1837, p. 169.
- ↑ Johann Andreas Schmeller: Bavarian Dictionary: Collection of words and expressions that occur in the living dialects as well as in the older and oldest provincial literature of the Kingdom of Bavaria, especially its older lands, and in today's general German written language either not at all, or not common in the same meanings. Volume 2, JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart / Tübingen, 1828, p. 88.