teacupful
noun
as much as a teacup will hold, equal to 4 fluid ounces (113 grams).
teacupfuls
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pluralof teacupful.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Add three teacupfuls boiling milk or barley-water and simmer for fifteen minutes.
From Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. by Mrs. (Jean Oliver) Mill
INGREDIENTS.—2 teacupfuls of rice, apples, moist sugar, cloves.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
Take a piece of quick-lime as large as a good-sized lemon and two teacupfuls of salt; put it into a large vessel and slack it with a gallon of boiling water.
From The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by F. L. (Fanny Lemira) Gillette
INGREDIENTS.—6 good-sized apples, 12 cloves, pounded sugar, 1 lemon, 2 teacupfuls of water, 1 tablespoonful of gelatine, a few drops of prepared cochineal.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
Three teacupfuls of pulverized sugar; one of butter; three tablespoonfuls of flour; one teacupful of boiling water.
From Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book by Carrie V. Shuman
