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Example sentences for "half cupful"

  • To two cupfuls of cold mashed potatoes add a half cupful of milk, a pinch of salt, a tablespoonful of butter, two tablespoonfuls of flour and two eggs beaten to a froth.

  • Windsor Sandwiches Chop sufficient cold boiled chicken to make a half pint, add a half cupful of finely chopped celery, a half teaspoonful of salt, a dash of pepper and four tablespoonfuls of cream; mix.

  • Rub together one tablespoonful of butter and one tablespoonful of flour; add a half cupful of cold milk, and stir over hot water until you have a smooth, thick paste.

  • Beat a half cupful of butter to a cream, add gradually one cupful of sugar.

  • To bake them, stir the oil from the can into a half cupful of water, add a teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce, a half teaspoonful of salt and a dash of pepper.

  • Beat the yolks of two eggs, add a half cupful of sour cream, four tablespoonfuls of vinegar; stir this over the fire until it thickens.

  • To each cupful of the cold fish allow one level tablespoonful of butter, two level tablespoonfuls of flour and a half cupful of milk.

  • Put on the stove in a kettle containing a half cupful of water, to prevent sticking.

  • Cold Sauce= Cream together one-half cupful of butter and one and one-half cupfuls of sugar.

  • Boil one quart of huckleberries in one-half pint of water and one-half cupful of sugar.

  • Add a half cupful of meat stock, thicken with a little flour and butter, and boil three minutes, squeeze a little lemon juice into it, add a sprinkling of parsley and a dash of pepper, pour over the artichokes and serve.

  • Borax one teaspoonful, spirits of camphor fifteen drops, distilled water one-half cupful.

  • Chop fine a half cupful of the veal left after straining off the soup.

  • Then add a half cupful of rice, previously stewed soft in a very little water.

  • Strain a half cupful of your chicken gravy with an equal quantity of soup; add a little boiling water, and put on with the rice in a farina-kettle.

  • Skim the gravy, add a half cupful of hot water, thicken with brown flour, squeeze in the juice of a lemon, strain, and pour over the meat in the dish.

  • Put one-half pint milk and one-half cupful sugar in a frying pan and let it come to a boil; then dissolve one tablespoonful corn starch in a little milk reserved from the half pint.

  • Add one-half cupful of salt pork, cut into dice and fried until brown and crisp, two onions, one carrot, and a tablespoonful of powdered sweet herbs.

  • Add one-half cupful of chicken cut into dice, a shredded green pepper, which has been fried in butter, and a cupful of barley which has been cooked in chicken stock.

  • Heat a half cupful of lard in a skillet until smoking hot, then put in the fish and fry on one side until brown.

  • Over the whole pour the oyster juice and one-half cupful of milk.

  • Boil for ten minutes; turn in one-half cupful cream, or same quantity of milk with a small piece of butter; let it boil up.

  • Then add a small cupful milk, six eggs, one and a half cupful sugar.

  • To make the chocolate fondant take two cupfuls of sugar and four ounces of grated chocolate and one-half cupful of water.

  • If the sugar is used add one-half cupful of water.

  • The Germans like a half cupful of seeded raisins or chopped prunes added to this.

  • Chop a half cupful of suet fine, put into a frying pan a tablespoonful of the suet, and when hot add an onion chopped fine.

  • Add a half cupful of water and cook slowly about three hours.

  • Page 27] Heat in a double-boiler, and just before serving add one-half cupful of whipped or cold cream.

  • Cook together two tablespoonfuls of butter and one of flour, add a half cupful of cold water, and cook until thick, stirring constantly.

  • Cook together one tablespoonful of butter and two of flour, and add one-half cupful of cream and one-half cupful of stock.

  • Season with salt and a half cupful of hot cream.

  • Prepare the rolls as directed in the recipe for Breakfast Rolls, and when well kneaded, work into the dough a half cupful of Zante currants which have been well washed, dried, and floured.

  • If condensed or dry yeast is used, previously dissolve it well in a half cupful or less of lukewarm water.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half cupful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carried through; common noun; countless numbers; country gentlemen; different directions; half century; half fathoms; half feet; half gallon; half hours; half inch; half interest; half length; half millions; half minutes; half months; half ounce; half ounces; half past; half pints; half speed; half tablespoon; half teaspoon; half thick; half years; suffrage bill