teaspoonful
noun
the amount a teaspoon can hold.
half-teaspoonful
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a word derived from
teaspoonful.
Example Sentences
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On the fifth day she takes a half-teaspoonful of cystine, cysteine, d-1-methionine, l-methionine, cystine-disulfoxide, sulfonic acid or cysteic acid, the seven body sulfur compounds crystallized by Lankenau's Chemist Gerrit Toennies.
From Time Magazine Archive
If there is not gravy, take a little boiling water, add a little salt, pepper, and half-teaspoonful of minced onion, and as much chopped parsley.
From A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl by Caroline French Benton
Plain Icing Put the white of one egg into a bowl with a half-teaspoonful of water, and beat till light.
From A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl by Caroline French Benton
Drain, when soft, and put into a saucepan with an ounce of butter, one small onion chopped fine, one saltspoonful of salt and a half-teaspoonful of curry powder.
From Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs by Anonymous
Cook a half-teaspoonful of minced onion in the butter you put in the hot frying-pan, and turn in the eggs, and when they set mix in the chicken.
From A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl by Caroline French Benton
