Pound Cake
If you look at early recipes for poundcake no one had heard of kitchen scales. Lumps of butter the size of four eggs etc were how they were written. Clearly weighing ingredients is the most accurate but not always worth the bother. I recently bought a Taylor 4 cup measure that has a scale built in the base. Getting out the scale and dinking around with adding just tich more or take a bit out is slow and cumbersome compared to the dip and sweep method of measurement. In 98 percent of homebaking a single recipe the difference a scale would make is neglible since at least 98% of American recipes are written for volume measurement and then you'd be trying find new recipes or conversion charts. Not worth the time, mess and effort at my house. I can bake 6 cakes in the time it takes most people to get out the ingredients.
If you look at early recipes for poundcake no one had heard of kitchen scales. Lumps of butter the size of four eggs etc were how they were written. Clearly weighing ingredients is the most accurate but not always worth the bother. I recently bought a Taylor 4 cup measure that has a scale built in the base. Getting out the scale and dinking around with adding just tich more or take a bit out is slow and cumbersome compared to the dip and sweep method of measurement. In 98 percent of homebaking a single recipe the difference a scale would make is neglible since at least 98% of American recipes are written for volume measurement and then you'd be trying find new recipes or conversion charts. Not worth the time, mess and effort at my house. I can bake 6 cakes in the time it takes most people to get out the ingredients.