Hogsheads (wine) to US Cups (hhd to cup)
1 hogshead (wine) equals 1,008 US cups exactly.
How to convert hogsheads (wine) to US cups
To convert hogsheads (wine) to US cups, multiply the number of hogsheads (wine) by 1,008. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply US cups by 0.0009920634921 (rounded).
US cups = hogsheads (wine) × 1,008
Example: 10 hogsheads (wine) = 10,080 US cups.
Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.
About these units
Hogshead (wine) (hhd)
63 US gallons (238.48 L), a quarter of a wine tun. A cask size for wine; tobacco hogsheads were a separate, larger size.
Philologists link the odd name to Germanic cask terms such as Dutch oxhooft and Danish oxehoved, literally an ox head, which English speakers may have bent into hogshead. An act of 1423 first tried to standardise the cask, but sizes still varied by product and place for centuries afterwards.
For wine the figure is 63 US wine gallons, or 52.5 imperial gallons, close to 238.5 litres (238.48 L as used here). It is a quarter of a tun and three quarters of a puncheon, and sits between the tierce at 42 gallons and the butt at 126. Other trades used different sizes: beer hogsheads of 54 gallons, fortified wines of 46 to 57 imperial gallons, and tobacco hogsheads of at least 550 litres.
Hogsheads carried far more than wine. Colonial Virginia shipped tobacco in them, British West Indies sugar averaged about 813 kilograms per cask, and Louisiana counted sugar by the hogshead for most of the nineteenth century. Whisky is typically matured in hogshead casks of about 250 litres.
1 hogshead (wine) = 238.4809424 liters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Hogshead; Wikipedia: Tun (unit)
US Cup (cup)
One sixteenth of a US gallon, 236.588 mL (8 US fluid ounces). The standard US recipe cup.
Cups began as household drinking vessels, not scientific units, which is why they remain the messiest measures in the kitchen. The US customary cup was defined by slicing up the gallon: half a pint, or eight US fluid ounces, about 236.6 milliliters. Unlike the larger units, nobody ever fixed it to a physical vessel, so it exists only as a fraction of the gallon.
The customary cup is not the only American cup. For nutrition labels, US regulation defines a cup as exactly 240 milliliters, a rounder figure that sits slightly above the customary size. Packaged foods therefore list a serving in the legal cup while a measuring cup from the hardware store follows the customary definition. The gap is 3.4 milliliters, which hardly matters for soup but can matter in baking. Cup measures also hide the weight of dry ingredients, since a cup of sifted flour and a cup of packed flour differ substantially, which is why much of the world prefers grams.
1 US cup = 0.2365882365 liters (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Cup (unit); NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume; 21 CFR 101.9: nutrition labeling household measures
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