dessertspoonful
noun
as much as a dessertspoon can hold: 2½ fluid drams.
dessertspoonfuls
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pluralof dessertspoonful.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Spoon dessertspoonfuls of meringue on the trays spaced well apart and top each with a good pinch of coconut.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2012
For six people put on the fire two handfuls of sorrel, reduce it to a puree, and add two dessertspoonfuls of cream, a lump of butter the size of a pigeon's egg, pepper, salt.
From The Belgian Cookbook by Various
Mint Sauce.—Four dessertspoonfuls of mint, two of sugar, one gill of vinegar; stir all together; make two or three hours before wanted.
From Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs by Anonymous
If oven-plates are used, put dessertspoonfuls some distance apart on these and put in oven.
From Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. by Mrs. (Jean Oliver) Mill
INGREDIENTS.—The yolks of 4 eggs, 1 pint of cream, 3 oz. of preserved ginger, 2 dessertspoonfuls of syrup, sifted sugar to taste, 1 oz. of isinglass.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
