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Example sentences for "cupful"

Lexicographically close words:
cupboards; cupel; cupellation; cupelling; cupels; cupfull; cupfuls; cupidity; cupido; cupids
  1. For the sauce, take three and a half cupfuls of boiling water and stir in it a cupful of sugar, and a tablespoonful of either flour or corn-starch rubbed smooth with a little cold water.

  2. To make hard sauce take a half-cup of butter and cream it with a fork; add a cupful of sugar and beat until nicely mixed and creamy.

  3. Wash half a cupful of rice thoroughly, put it in a quart of boiling salted water, and let it boil for half an hour; then drain it thoroughly and steam it in a colander for an hour.

  4. Gradually add a cupful of water or preferably milk and boil three minutes; season well, pour over the meat, and serve immediately.

  5. One quart of milk, four eggs, one half-cupful sugar, four tablespoonfuls of corn-starch dissolved in a little milk.

  6. Take out the bone and fill the space with stuffing made as follows: Take one half-cupful of chopped fat pork, or unsmoked bacon, and fry with a finely chopped onion until delicately brown.

  7. Then you hastily get a half a tea-cupful of water, a little warm if you have it, and put in a few drops of calendula.

  8. Once I put a cupful of raw beef juice in a can of tomatoes I was cookin' and he et a'most all of 'em.

  9. Strain a large cupful of the liquor into a saucepan and set it over the fire.

  10. Set a clean frying-pan on the stove with a cupful of beef gravy in it from which you have skimmed all the fat.

  11. Drop a piece of onion as large as a hickory-nut in a cupful of water and boil fifteen minutes.

  12. In a saucepan put half a cupful of boiling water.

  13. Meanwhile, beat up an egg in a bowl, add a teaspoonful of cornstarch, and a small cupful of milk, and when these are mixed, a cupful of the boiling gravy.

  14. Before taking it from the fire, put a cupful of boiling water in a saucepan.

  15. Half a cupful lively yeast, or a yeast-cake dissolved in a little warm water.

  16. As you stir it over the fire add a cupful of rich milk—cream, if you have it—whip up hard and turn into a deep dish.

  17. Soak the gelatine in a cupful of strong, clear black coffee, instead of the cold water, and proceed as with plain blanc-mange, using no other flavoring than the coffee.

  18. Into this stir the salted flour, cupful by cupful, until all is in.

  19. Put a cupful of pounded crackers into a flat dish and season with salt and pepper.

  20. Make a hole in the middle and pour in the yeast, then a cupful of the water.

  21. Half a cupful of nice gravy skimmed and strained.

  22. A cupful of gravy will be enough for three cupfuls of meat.

  23. Now add a cupful of cold meat chopped fine, and a cupful of cold or hot mashed potato.

  24. Beat up two eggs in a deep bowl; roll enough crackers until you have a cupful of crumbs, or the same of fine stale bread crumbs; spread the crumbs on a large plate or pie-tin.

  25. Two eggs well beaten, one cupful of sweet milk, sifted flour enough to make a stiff batter, two large teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a pinch of salt and as many cherries as can be stirred in.

  26. Take the yolks and mix with half a cupful of granulated sugar and a pint of milk.

  27. Stir together one cupful of white sugar and half a cupful of butter until it is creamy and light; add flavoring to taste.

  28. Cream together a cupful of sifted sugar and half a cupful of butter, add a teaspoonful of ground cinnamon and an egg well beaten.

  29. Make a nice syrup of nearly one cupful of water and one pound of sugar, and when clarified by boiling and skimming put in the pears and stew gently until clear.

  30. Take one cupful of butter, two of powdered sugar, the whites of two eggs, five tablespoonfuls of sherry wine or brandy and a quarter of a cupful of boiling water.

  31. She drank a cupful of milk, watched the goat's flesh roasted on the altar, heard the prayers for the morning, and extended the mercy-hour far into the afternoon.

  32. Stir a tablespoonful of arrowroot powders into half a cupful of cold water, pour in a pint of boiling water, let it stand five or ten minutes and then sweeten and flavor it to suit the taste.

  33. Make into twelve pills with syrup or mucilage, washing down each pill with a cupful of pennyroyal tea.

  34. If the urine is irritating, a cupful of buchu tea three or four times a day, or German chamomile tea, should be drunk between meals.

  35. When a child has croup it should be put at once into a warm room; a big fire should be kept up, and the child given hot drinks or a cupful of hot tea so as to make it sweat.

  36. It consists principally of dissolving one teaspoonful of the Femina uterine lotion in a cupful of boiling hot water, after which this should be added to a gallon of warm water of a temperature of 105 degrees F.

  37. If the pregnant woman notices that her urine becomes thick and foamy, that her head aches and her limbs swell, she should pay particular attention to keep her bowels free, and besides drink a cupful of buchu tea every night at bedtime.

  38. Yet as a nutritive stimulant, beef tea possesses at times considerable value; it is an excellent vehicle sometimes, for instance an egg thoroughly beaten and added to a cupful of warm beef tea is a desirable form of liquid food for invalids.

  39. Belladonna and black henbane: Give emetics, and afterwards a dose of paregoric, and a hot whisky toddy, or a cupful of strong tea.

  40. If the throat is only reddened, a teaspoonful of chlorate of potash dissolved in a cupful of hot water and when cold used as a gargle and a teaspoonful of the solution swallowed at the same time every two hours is all that is necessary.

  41. If he complains of thirst give a cupful of warm tea or a warm whisky toddy.

  42. A common sized fish requires about half a large tea cupful of salt.

  43. Boil a tea cupful of hops in one quart of water till reduced to one half.

  44. Four large potatoes boiled, One table spoonful of butter, Salt to the taste, Half a pint of milk, Half a tea cupful of yeast, Flour sufficient to form a dough.

  45. Mix the juice and sugar together, and boil and skim it; then strain it again, and when cool to each pint of juice add a tea cupful of brandy.

  46. One tea cupful of milk, Three eggs, One pint of green corn grated, A little salt, As much flour as will form a batter.

  47. Half a pound of sugar, Three pints of lukewarm milk or cream, One tea cupful of wine.

  48. Half a pound of butter, Half a tea cupful of ginger, One pint of molasses, Two pounds of flour, One table spoonful of salaeratus.

  49. Rub gradually into the pounded almond one tea cupful of milk.

  50. Pick and wash a tea cupful of rice, and boil it in a quart of milk till it is very thick and dry; add to this whilst it is hot, a pint of rich milk or cream, and two ounces of butter.

  51. Wash half an ounce of sago and soak it in a tea cupful of cold water for an hour or more.

  52. Make a sponge the evening before you wish to bake the cake, of a tea cupful and a half of milk, and as much flour stirred into it as will form a thick batter, with a little salt, and one gill of good yeast.

  53. As soon as it begins to boil, add a tea cupful of cream, and a little grated cracker rubbed in one ounce of butter.

  54. To one tea cupful of mashed parsnip add one quart of warm milk, with a quarter of a pound of butter dissolved in it, a little salt, and one gill of yeast, with flour enough to make a thick batter.

  55. Would the entire cupful have made a pretty angel of me?

  56. He had swallowed about half a cupful before he discovered that the seasoning was not agreeable to his palate.

  57. Digest for a few hours (preferably for a few days) a quarter of an ounce each of cinnamon and allspice and a couple of cloves in a tea-cupful of sherry, and strain through muslin.

  58. Boil a table-spoonful of grated horseradish in half a tea-cupful of water for ten minutes, and allow to get cold.

  59. Thoroughly mix with a tea-cupful each of brandy and cinnamon water.

  60. If you have tomato catsup in the house, a cupful will make soup rich.

  61. When just about lukewarm, put in a cupful of good lively yeast, and set it in a cool place in summer, and warm place in winter.

  62. If you fear it will be too greasy, take off a cupful of the fat before you boil.

  63. It is delicious with roast meat; and a cupful adds much to the richness of soup and chowder.

  64. A whole heap o' times I has had nothin' ter eat but one cupful o' peas an' a hunk of co'nbread all day long.

  65. Put one cup of sugar and a piece of butter the size of an egg in a bowl, and one good-sized cupful of boiling water into a pan on the stove.

  66. Take flour as for making biscuit; add a cupful of yeast sponge, two well beaten eggs, a quart of luke-warm water, and a cupful of sugar.

  67. Pour in a cupful of cold water, cover the pie with a good crust, making a couple of cuts in the middle of this, and bake in a steady oven for an hour and a quarter.

  68. Add, at the last, one large cupful of seeded raisins and one-half cup currants.

  69. Stew one-half pound of chopped figs in a syrup made of one-fourth cupful of water and half cupful of sugar.

  70. One cupful of granulated sugar, five tablespoonfuls of milk.

  71. Let the whole simmer over the fire until the apple is dissolved, and the cocoa-nut very tender; then add a cupful of strong thickening made of flour and water, and sufficient salt, as a curry will not bear being salted at table.

  72. Cover the three sides with the following icing: Beat together until smooth and creamy 1 cupful of sweet cream, adding enough confectioners' sugar to make it spread.

  73. The one cupful of white of eggs was beaten very stiff.

  74. When she had saved one even cupful she baked an angel cake over the following recipe: One heaping cup of pulverized sugar (all the cup will hold), was sifted 8 times.

  75. Take out 1 cupful of these crumbs and stand aside.

  76. To a small cupful of the meat add two tablespoonfuls of melted butter and press into a cup; when cold spread this on buttered bread.

  77. FRUIT ICE-CREAM 1 quart of fruit, or enough to make a cupful of juice.

  78. Measure one-half a cupful and mix with the sugar; boil without stirring, till it spins a thread when you hold up a little on a spoon.

  79. When the dish is full pour over it a cupful of milk and sift fine crumbs over the top, and add some more bits of butter.

  80. Put the milk in a saucepan after taking out a small half-cupful and mixing it with the cornstarch; put in the sugar and salt.

  81. Put a cupful of shelled almonds into a saucepan of boiling water, enough to well cover them.

  82. Even more efficient is a bath made by dissolving half a cupful of boiled starch and one tablespoonful of washing or baking soda in four gallons of warm water.

  83. The urine is small in amount, perhaps not more than a cupful in twenty-four hours, instead of the normal daily excretion of three pints.

  84. Mix one cupful of any good cheese grated with one cupful of flour, one half saltspoonful of salt, a pinch of cayenne pepper and butter the size of an egg.

  85. Put one pound of brown sugar, a breakfast cupful of cold water, eight ounces of unsalted butter, mix well together in a small preserving pan, stir till quite through the boil.

  86. To a cupful of cold boiled hominy, add a tablespoonful of melted butter, and stir, moistening by degrees with a cupful of milk beating to a soft light paste, one teacupful of white sugar, and lastly a well beaten egg.

  87. When well blended, add one beaten up egg, cupful of chopped meat (any kind.

  88. One cupful boiling milk, beat the yolks of four eggs, add hot milk, and a tablespoonful melted butter, wet three teaspoonfuls flour in a little cold milk add the beaten whites and beat all, salt and pepper to taste.

  89. One quart chicken or veal broth; one quart milk; one half cupful rice; one teaspoonful salt; one head celery; seasoning.

  90. I am afraid there isn't much more than a cupful left.

  91. Stooping, she scooped up a cupful of the clean water and drank.

  92. A half cupful of mustard may be added to the bath.

  93. Bear in mind that the child is losing liquids, and so, after the bowels have moved, boiled water should be given by mouth, or a cupful of water can often be retained if it is introduced into the rectum slowly under very low pressure.

  94. He hobbled to the entrance, and brought a cupful of snow, and melted it over the fire.

  95. She ran to the stream, and brought him a cupful of water; and another; and while he drank the second, she picked up his revolver, and carried it to a stone fully as far away as it had been when he crawled for it.

  96. Add three tablespoonfuls of the powdered crackers to half a cupful of milk and half a cupful of boiling water; cook for ten minutes; then add one-fourth of a teaspoonful of salt and serve.

  97. Take the juice of one lemon or three tablespoonfuls of lemon juice; add from one to three tablespoonfuls of sugar and a cupful (six ounces) of cold water.

  98. Shake in a covered jar or lemonade-shaker, a cupful of milk, a tablespoonful of lime water and the white of an egg.

  99. Wash dry and cut up three pounds of figs and seven pounds of rhubarb, put them into a basin, add six pounds of sugar, one cupful of water, two heaping teaspoonfuls of ground ginger and the juice of two large lemons.

  100. Pour a cupful of boiling water over two mashed baked apples; cool, strain, and sweeten.

  101. Chop all fine together, put in layers, one of tomatoes and onions and one of salt, using in all a half cupful of salt.

  102. One cupful of milk, one pint of oysters, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of butter, pepper.

  103. To this add a cupful of whole-wheat flour and beat for five minutes.

  104. Mix a tablespoonful of gluten flour with one-fourth of a cupful of cold water and stir this into one cupful of boiling salted water.

  105. A small cupful may be drank in the morning, which will create an appetite and also strengthen the digestive powers.

  106. Boil for twenty minutes, stirring constantly; then add a cupful of milk, bring to a boil, strain, and serve hot.

  107. To wash quilts a housekeeper gives the following directions: Dissolve a bar of white soap in a cupful of water.

  108. Cut the rind from one orange; over the rind pour a cupful of boiling water; then add the juice of the orange and a tablespoonful of sugar; cool, strain, and serve with shaved ice if desired.


  109. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cupful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.