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Just had a recipe call for 3/4 cup + 2 tbsp of water. That's... oddly specific.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

ridiculous unit system paired with scaling the recipe down from the original
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

They think you're too stupid to do 7/8 of a cup. I mean, apparently 7 ounces is too hard.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

@Jonathan Lamothe This commonly is because you want to to use that water in two different places and they don't want you to just measure it all out
in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard You wuold think so, but in this case, it was just that they wanted a really precise measurement. As @Judy Anderson pointed out, I don't know why they didn't just go with 7/8 of a cup, except that perhaps they didn't expect anyone to have something that could measure in eighths of a cup.

In their defense, my measuring cup didn't have that mark. I just went half way between the 3/4 and 1 cup marks.

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