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                    How to measure ⅚ cup of oil, part III

I just received a nice email from Muffintree14 thanking me for helping them
make a recipe where they needed to meaure out ⅚ of a cup [1]! They were
trying to measure out 200ml (milliliter) of something (they didn't specify
what) and it turns out that 200ml is about ⅚ of a cup. I suspect they could
have just used a regular cup, as that's 237ml. As long as you aren't baking
bread (or other pastry-like food item) then it probably doesn't matter that
much. Roughly speaking, 200ml is close enough to 1 cup that you might as well
use 1 cup.

But then I found an image [2] (via Bob Anstett on TikLinkedMyFacePinInstaMe­
GramSpaceWeInTokTrestBook) describing the various relationships among
Imperial units, and from there, I found a much better way to meaure ⅚ cups—
measure out 1 cup, then remove 8 teaspoons; much better than the 2 ⅓ cup
measures (or 1 ⅔ if available), a 1½ tablespoon and a ½ teaspoon. And maybe
this will help someone else twenty years down the line.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/01/21.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2024/05/11/imperial.jpg

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