teacupful

NOUN
  1. as much as a teacup will hold
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  • Chamomile tea is an excellent stomachic when taken in moderate doses of half-a-teacupful at a [86] time. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Drink one teacupful of plantain tea four to five times daily until relief is obtained.
  • Roll an ounce of butter in a good teaspoonful of flour; season with pepper, salt and nutmeg; put it into a coffeecupful of fresh milk, together with two teaspoonfuls of chopped parsley; stir and simmer it for fifteen minutes, add a teacupful of thick cream. The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home
  • -- Simmer a teacupful of port wine, the same quantity of good meat gravy, a little shalot, a little pepper, salt, Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
  • BEEF STEAK, STEWED -- Peel and chop two spanish onions, cut into small parts four pickled walnuts, and put them at the bottom of a stewpan; add a teacupful of mushroom ketchup, two teaspoonfuls of walnut ditto, one of shalot, one of chile vinegar, and a lump of butter. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
  • A little before serving, add the juice of a lemon and a teacupful of boiling cream.
  • Cover with paste, and when the pie is baked, pour into it a large teacupful of cream.
  • Beat the eggs light and add with the flour and a quarter of a teacupful of sweet milk.
  • Take a teacupful of flour and mix it with a teacupful of caster sugar and a teaspoonful of baking powder; break two eggs into a cup, then slide into the mixture.
  • _Orange: _ -- For five pounds of goods, muriate of tin six tablespoonfuls, argol four ounces; boil and dip one hour and add again to the dye one teacupful of madder; dip again one-half hour. The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home
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