Yes, and as if in culinary books, grains/powders/liquids are usually measured in glasses, if not in grams.
I have a book for young housewives (or something like that) in my bookcase that my mom gave for a wedding in 1973. It is in grams or milliliters. Including "cut meat along the fibers in pieces of 10 gr". And the strange word "add": "lay meat in a pot with 420 ml of broth, add 20 g of tomato paste". But I got "300 grams of eggs" in the recipe of some test. Not so long ago I learned that the recipes were of general food standards and norms, simply reduced to, say, three servings, not thirty. One hundred cakes really count eggs in pieces, and how does a piece of meat in 10-20-30 grams look, the cook knows from the first course (or as it was called in the PTU?) is