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by inferiorhuman 275 days ago
Is Ambrose Heath a better example?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjIwI5Vdmds

British recipes today largely use metric units. Pre-metric recipes absolutely did use cups (although this persisted in Canada and the US more than the UK). As Glen points out none of these British cups were standardized.