I’m tired of guessing which country the author is from when they use cup measurement and how densely they put flour in it.

  • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    My total guess is weighing scales used to be expensive / inaccessible for the common home baker and one of the first popular recipe books thus used volume, became wildly popular, and indirectly taught a generation of home bakers that baking recipes are by volume, not weight.