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!
They were trying to measure out 200ml 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
(via Bob Anstett on TikLinkedMyFacePinInstaMeGramSpaceWeInTokTrestBook)
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.
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