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Measuring ?

Michael D. Edmiston wrote:

Denker makes the point that some people in some countries
might use measuring cups and say they are measuring mass.
The recipes in Amsterdam might be adjusted so the recipe
works out correctly even when measuring substances with
different densities.

I am holding in front of me such a measuring device from Germany.
The foodstuffs that it purports to gauge with independent marks for each are:

Salz
Haferflocken
Hulsenfruchte - Graupen - Reis
Griess - Rosinen
Mehl
Zucker
Kakao

(rough translations available upon request)

1/2 l 1/4 l 1/8 liter are also marked, along with 10, 20, 30 40,
50 .... up to 500 ccm

The assumption seems to be that each of these various foodstuffs
maintain a density that is constant 'enough'.
The problem with flour stems mainly from humidity sensitivity - or so
I am told by those who claim to know.