Jiggers and ponies

[Wilfrid]

I am perusing a collection of recipes from the 1930s, and whilst I can deduce that a pony is larger than a jigger, I am unsure about the respective proportions. Can anyone help?

[Vanessa]

A jigger is 11/2fl oz, a pony 1fl oz

v

[guajolote]

A pony is 1.5 Tablespoons (or .00939941 board foot, .00487895 Canadian gallon, .00010561 chetvert (Russian chetvert), .00004896 cord foot (of wood), .00002238 displacement ton, 739.34 drop, .00019182 dry barrel, .02014141 dry quart, .00001958 freight ton, .00732422 jeroboam ...)

A jigger is 1/8 cup (or .01879883 board foot, .00001224 cord (of wood), .01007071 dry gallon, .04028283 dry quart, .05859375 fifth, .00930251 hekat (Israeli hekat), .01464844 jeroboam, .00024619 koku (Japanese koku), .375 noggin, .00352974 oil arroba (Spanish oil arroba), .01118967 omer (Israeli omer), .00503535 peck (dry peck), .00027902 petroleum barrel, .09375 pint (fluid pint), .00001567 register ton, .00171327 Roman amphora, .00156657 timber foot, .00427692 tou (Chinese tou), .0390316 UK quart (British quart) ... )

This is a great conversion site

Edit: Mine was funnier

Edited April 7, 2003 by guajolote (log)

[trillium]

Even more simply, the pony is the smaller side on a two-sided jigger.

regards,

trillium

[KateW]

At jwu the jigger is 1 1/2 oz. and the other side is 3/4 oz. Is the smaller side still called a pony even though Vanessa said a pony is an oz.?

[Wilfrid]

Trillium's reply has the blessed virtue of simplicity. I'll have to take another look at those recipes - it was making sense to me that the pony was bigger.

I'll post more after I've tried some of them.

[Vanessa]

Wilfrid - I already knew about the jigger, and had to check about the pony. I've just checked 2 more sources and come up with the same answer. I have to say that my imperial (US) double-ended measure fits in with this - 1oz at one end, 11/2oz at the other.

By the way, is it the Savoy Cocktail Book you are looking at?

v

[Wilfrid]

I think my US measure has the proportion three parts/one part too. This is an old reminiscence about the legendary Waldorf-Astoria cocktail bar by a guy called Crockett. I'll start the appropriate thread when I have digested (or imbibed) more. I think there's a fair chance the recipes are out of copyright too.