Jutte (unit)

The jutte was a French measure of salt and was used in Saint-Malo , a port and trading town in Brittany , in the French department of Ille-et-Vilaine . The Boisseau grain measure was actually used . The jutte was 1.5 times that amount.

• 1 jutte = 30 pots = 3588.4 Parisian cubic inches = 71.181 liters

For a tonneau 21 juttes were necessary, of which one jutte was heaped and the other 20 measured flat. It should make about 2600 pounds by Parisian market weights for this tonneau.

literature

• Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1078.