Did they use cups and tablespoons? Or grams and milliliters?
Or cubits?
A handful of this, a partial handful of that. :-)
I have a church ladies recipe book from 1913 and some of the recipes use measures like a piece of butter the size of an egg or cook over a low fire…back when wood fired ranges were still in use. I also learned some of my grandmother’s recipes from my mother that were based only on rough estimates of quantities.