"Mike Barnes" wrote in message
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"Cups" (and volumetric measures generally) are typical in American
kitchens.

The myth is that there wasn't room on the wagon trains for complicated
pieces of mechanical machinery like scales, so the pioneers who wrote the
cookery books used volumetric measures, as they had cups with them anyway.
(Yes I know I could look this up somewhere like snopes but that would spoil
the fun.)

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