unit of measurement
The name comes from a former governor of the city of
Kinshasa,
Dominique Sakombi Inongo (governor in 1976 and 1977), who,
trying to standardise the market commerce, introduced a unit of measurement,
for food products, which was later called the
sakombi by the market vendors.
It's a
cup with following specifications :
9 cm of diameter
10 cm of depth
this gives
3.14 x (9cm/2)² x 10cm = 635.85cm³ = 635.85 ml (when filled up to the border)
this gives about 300g of flour
to be more specific :
268.76g of cake flour
448.83g of semoulina flour
254.34g of casava flour
572.26g of rice
link : http://sakombi.blogspot.co.at/2010/08/lambassadeur-dominique-sakombi-inongo.html
