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Example sentences for "cupfuls"

Lexicographically close words:
cupellation; cupelling; cupels; cupful; cupfull; cupidity; cupido; cupids; cupiens; cupio
  1. Add one scant tablespoonful of flour, and, when well mixed, one and one-half cupfuls of chicken or veal broth.

  2. Use one cupful of chopped pecan nuts to three cupfuls of French peas.

  3. If to be served after dinner, it will be better if made with three cupfuls of water instead of four.

  4. Next add three cupfuls and a half of cold water, a cupful at a time.

  5. Reduce the amount of coffee slightly when several cupfuls are required.

  6. Then add three tablespoonfuls of flour made smooth with a little stock, stir in four cupfuls of the cauliflower water (which you will have from a recipe following) into which has been beaten the yolk of an egg.

  7. Having boiled two cupfuls of lentils till they are tender, season them either hot or cold with a little garlic cut up fine, or with chives and serve in lettuce leaves with a French dressing.

  8. Sift together one third cupful of cornstarch, and two cupfuls of flour, one and one half teaspoonfuls of ground mixed spices, and three teaspoonfuls of baking powder; then add to the mixture.

  9. To make it, boil a pint of water with two cupfuls of granulated sugar for ten minutes and cool it.

  10. Witch Cake Cream one half cupful of butter with one and one half cupfuls of sugar; add three eggs and beat five minutes; add one cupful of milk.

  11. Sarah Ann hastily poured a few cupfuls of water into the kettle, then she put down both utensils and stood holding her bare arms to warm them.

  12. When creamy add a cupful of milk, alternating with three and one-half cupfuls pastry flour that has been mixed and sifted with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder.

  13. Dissolve three cupfuls sugar in one cupful boiling water, and cook until it spins a thread.

  14. To make it boil a quart of cranberries with two cupfuls of water until soft, add two cupfuls sugar, stir until dissolved, let cool, add the juice of one or two lemons and freeze.

  15. Beat three eggs (separately) very lightly, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar and two cupfuls of milk.

  16. Flavor two cupfuls of chopped figs and mix in.

  17. Now add two cupfuls of cold water (making six cups of water in all) and, if cool enough, add one yeast cake dissolved in a very little water.

  18. Two thirds cup sugar, one egg, two thirds cup milk, butter the size of an egg, one and one half cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder.

  19. Take two cupfuls of cold mashed potatoes, beat up with two tablespoonfuls of melted butter and three eggs, make into rolls, cover with cracker dust, or bread crumbs and fry.

  20. Take two cupfuls of cold mashed potato, and stir into it six teaspoonfuls of melted butter, beating to a white cream before adding anything else.

  21. Mix together as quickly as possible two cupfuls of sugar with one of butter, then the beaten yolks and lastly the stiffly whipped whites of three eggs, and a teaspoonful extract of lemon.

  22. Take two cupfuls of cold mashed potato, and stir into it two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, beating to a white cream before adding anything else.

  23. Have ready two cupfuls of butter drawn in the usual way, and beat into it, while hot, four well-whipped eggs.

  24. Gradually beat into this two cupfuls of confectioners' sugar.

  25. Now stir in two cupfuls of sifted flour, and finally add two ounces of Walter Baker & Co.

  26. HILL'S COCOA FRAPPÉ Mix half a pound of cocoa and three cupfuls of sugar; cook with two cupfuls of boiling water until smooth; add to three quarts and a half of milk scalded with cinnamon bark; cook for ten minutes.

  27. For six cupfuls of cocoa use two tablespoonfuls of the powder, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, half a pint of boiling water, and a pint and a half of milk.

  28. Mix half a teaspoonful of baking powder with two scant cupfuls of sifted flour.

  29. Stir in about two cupfuls and a half of flour.

  30. When this is light and creamy, add a teaspoonful of vanilla; then gradually beat in two cupfuls of whipped cream.

  31. Usually, 1-1/2 cupfuls of flour will make sufficient paste for one double-crust pie, provided the pan in which it is made is not too large.

  32. Soak the bread crumbs in 3 cupfuls of the milk.

  33. Usually 1 1/2 cupfuls of crushed fruit is required for a quart of cream.

  34. Add the 2 cupfuls of oil a little at a time, beating thoroughly with a rotary beater each time oil is added.

  35. Serve about two cupfuls of grated cheese separate.

  36. Sprinkle about one and one-half cupfuls of macedoine vegetables over all.

  37. Strain the broth, bring to a boil, and add two cupfuls of boiled rice and the chicken meat.

  38. Serve separate a sauce formed by mixing one cup of Hollandaise sauce, one and one-half cupfuls of tomato sauce, and a few chopped truffles.

  39. Mash enough bananas to make two cupfuls of pulp.

  40. Then add two cupfuls of brown gravy, and cook again for five minutes, season with salt and Cayenne pepper, and pour over the fillets, on a platter.

  41. To the pan add one cupful of Hollandaise sauce and one and one-half cupfuls of tomato sauce.

  42. Mix well together two cupfuls of grated green corn, one beaten egg, one cup of flour, and a little salt and pepper.

  43. To two cupfuls cold mashed potato add an egg, a teaspoonful of butter, and salt and pepper to taste.

  44. Chop cold potatoes fine, have ready in a pan a tablespoonful of bacon dripping made very hot, stir into this two cupfuls of the potatoes, and toss about until well browned.

  45. Two cupfuls cold potatoes sliced, half cup gravy, quarter of an onion sliced.

  46. Two cupfuls of raw potatoes cut into dice, half-cup fine bread-crumbs, two tablespoonfuls butter.

  47. Two cupfuls green corn cut from the cob, two eggs, two tablespoonfuls milk, one tablespoonful melted butter, flour enough for thin batter.

  48. Put two cupfuls of this into the frying-pan with half an onion minced, and a half-cupful of good gravy.

  49. To two cupfuls of boiled cod, salt or fresh, well picked to pieces, allow one cupful of mashed potato.

  50. Have ready in a saucepan two cupfuls of milk, thickened with a tablespoonful of butter and two of flour; stir this into the turkey liquor, boil up, and serve.

  51. Each carrier received two cupfuls of salt for his day's work.

  52. Beat together one and one-half cupfuls of unskimmed milk and the yolks of two eggs, until thoroughly blended.

  53. Beat the yolks of two eggs in two cupfuls of ice water; then add gradually, beating well meantime, three and one fourth cupfuls of Graham flour.

  54. Into two cupfuls of hot mush made from white granular corn meal, stir two cupfuls of cold water.

  55. Two cupfuls of liquid or dry material = one pint Four cupfuls of liquid or dry material = one quart.

  56. In the morning, when well risen, add two or three cupfuls of warm flour, or sufficient to knead.

  57. Moisten two cupfuls of finely grated Graham bread crumbs with half a cup of thin sweet cream.

  58. To every three pints of juice add one of water and two cupfuls of sugar.

  59. Scald two cupfuls of fine white corn meal with boiling water.

  60. Three or four cupfuls of white flour will be needed for all purposes with the amount of liquid given; more liquid and flour may be added in forming the second sponge if a larger quantity of bread is desired.

  61. The quantity will vary somewhat with the brand of flour used, but about four and one fourth cupfuls will in general be needed.

  62. Two cupfuls of granulated sugar weigh one pound.

  63. Stir the mixed meal into one and a half cupfuls of ice water.

  64. Into two cupfuls of unskimmed milk which has been made very cold by standing on ice, stir gradually, sprinkling it from the hand, three and one fourth cupfuls of Graham flour.

  65. When very light, add three find one half cupfuls of sifted Graham flour, or enough to make a dough that can be molded.

  66. Add two cupfuls of cream or milk and cook until thick, stirring constantly.

  67. Add two cupfuls of shelled and broken shrimps and enough grated bread-crumbs to make a smooth paste.

  68. CORN ROLLS To four cupfuls of well-salted hot corn-meal mush add one cupful of mixed butter and lard and half a cupful of sugar.

  69. To the beaten yolks add a pinch of salt, two cupfuls of milk, and enough sifted flour to make a stiff batter.

  70. BLACK BEAN SOUP Soak two cupfuls of black beans in cold water over night.

  71. Beat until thoroughly mixed, with two cupfuls of milk and a tablespoonful of baking powder, then add three eggs, beaten separately, folding in the stiffly beaten whites last.

  72. Add a cupful of milk in which a teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved, and sift in two and one-half cupfuls of flour with a teaspoonful of cream tartar.

  73. Lay the meat upon the vegetables, add four cupfuls of boiling water, cover the pan, and put into a hot oven.

  74. HOT CROSS BUNS Rub one half cupful of butter into eight cupfuls of sifted flour, then add half a cake of compressed yeast dissolved in three cupfuls of scalded milk.

  75. Scald out the pot with freshly boiling water, pour in the tea, add the 6 cupfuls of freshly boiling water, and allow it to stand on the leaves until the tea is strong enough to serve.

  76. For every 10 medium-sized heads of cabbage, measure 2 cupfuls of salt.

  77. Force enough stewed tomatoes through a sieve to make 1 1/2 cupfuls of strained tomato.

  78. If uncooked rice is used, it should be cooked in 3 cupfuls of milk.

  79. Add 2 cupfuls of the strained tomato and stir and cook for ten minutes.

  80. When the mixture has been freezing for ten minutes, take off the cover and add 2 cupfuls of chopped figs.

  81. For 2 cupfuls allow a cupful of cream or rich milk.

  82. Stir this until browned and then add gradually 1-1/2 cupfuls of stock and season to taste.

  83. Add three cupfuls of sliced raw corn and when it is lightly browned pour off nearly all the fat.

  84. Scald 3 cupfuls of milk, add then a portion of it to the dry mixture, stir all together and continue to stir over the fire until the milk is very thick.

  85. Wash and soak 1-1/2 cupfuls of dried green peas over night.

  86. Wash a teacupful of rice in several waters, put it into a saucepan and just cover with cold water, and when it boils, add two cupfuls of milk, and boil until it becomes dry; put it into a mould and press it well.

  87. Mix together 2 cupfuls of corn-meal, 1 cupful of flour, 1 teaspoonful of salt, and 2 of baking powder.

  88. Put one cupful of rice on to boil in 3 cupfuls of water.

  89. Towards evening Jephson appeared with the boat, and brought a supply of Indian corn, which sufficed to give twelve cupfuls to each white.

  90. Liebig, and meat soups, had to be prepared in sufficient quantities to serve out cupfuls to each weakened man as he staggered in.

  91. 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.

  92. For the caramel, take two cupfuls of sugar (preferably brown) and put it in a frying-pan with a teaspoonful of water.

  93. Add two cupfuls of bread crumbs; season with salt and pepper and moisten with a little milk.

  94. As often prepared for old coffee-tipplers, two cupfuls (about 16 oz.

  95. For the jelly, soak the gelatine two hours in half a cupful of cold water; then pour on it enough boiling water to make, with the juice of the oranges, two cupfuls and a half.

  96. Half a package of Cox's sparkling gelatine, six oranges, three cupfuls and a half of sugar, one pint of blanc-mange.

  97. Put one and a half cupfuls of milk on to boil with a blade of mace, an onion, two cloves, a small piece of nutmeg and a bouquet of sweet herbs.

  98. Three tea-cupfuls of sugar, the juice of three lemons, three pints of cream, the yolks of eight eggs, one pint of water.

  99. Two cupfuls of sugar, one of lemon juice, one quart of boiling water, one cupful of cold water, a box of gelatine.

  100. The yolks of a dozen eggs and whites of eight, one and three-fourths cupfuls of sugar, the same quantity of flour, the rind of one lemon and juice of two.

  101. To make it, take two cupfuls of cornmeal, one of hominy and a tablespoon of salt and cook in a double boiler, with just enough boiling water until it is of the consistency of frying.

  102. Sea Foam For sea foam candy cook three cupfuls of light brown sugar, a cupful of water and a tablespoon of vinegar until the syrup forms a hard ball when dropped into cold water.

  103. Dumplings That Never Fall Two cupfuls of flour, two heaping teaspoons of baking powder, one-half teaspoon of salt and one cupful of sweet milk.

  104. While still hot add two cupfuls of nut meats which had been put through the chopper; pour into buttered pan and use like other scrapple.

  105. All this to three cupfuls of boiled rice; mix in two green peppers seeded and chopped, and a cupful of tomato sauce.

  106. Add to that two cupfuls of sugar and one quart of boiling water.

  107. Sift the baking powder and flour; stir these into the other mixture, and then add the two cupfuls of sweet milk.

  108. When very, very light, add the yolks of the eggs and beat for ten or fifteen minutes; then add one cupful of water, and two and a half cupfuls of flour, sifted with three level teaspoonfuls of baking powder.


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