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Example sentences for "half cups"

  • Mix the peas and ham and for one and one-half cups add a cup of white sauce seasoned with a teaspoon of lemon juice, a dash each of nutmeg and cayenne and salt to taste.

  • There should be one and one-half cups of each.

  • Into one cup of thin cream stir one and one half cups of granular corn meal, or enough to make a stiff batter; beat well, drop into heated irons, and bake.

  • Soak a cup of rice in one and a half cups of new milk; place all in an earthen dish, and steam an hour, or until dry and tender, stirring occasionally for the first fifteen minutes.

  • A very simple pudding may be made with two cups of cold, well-cooked cracked wheat, two and a half cups of milk, and one half cup of sugar.

  • For soaking, use one and a half cups of water for each cup of flake tapioca, and one pint of water for a cup of pearl tapioca.

  • Cook three minutes in the hot fat without browning, then add one and one-half cups milk, one-quarter teaspoonful salt, and cook until smoothly thickened.

  • Put one and one-half cups of cold water in a porcelain pot (Dutch oven preferred); pack chicken in closely.

  • Three eggs, one and a half cups of milk, three teaspoonfuls baking powder, salt, and flour enough to make quite stiff, thicker than batter cakes.

  • Have her mix one and one-half cups of sifted flour, one-half cup of yellow corn meal, three tablespoons of granulated sugar, one teaspoon of salt and two teaspoons of baking powder.

  • Sift several times one and one-half cups of flour with two scant teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and stir in, alternating with half a cup of milk.

  • One and a half cups sugar, three fourths cup butter.

  • For the rye bread one quart of rye flour with one and one half cups of wheat flour and one teaspoonful of salt.

  • Half Cups of Coffee =Supper= Egg Salad, Garnish of Sliced Tomatoes Graham Bread and Butter Blueberries.

  • Half Cups of Coffee =Supper= Creamed Celery with Poached Eggs on Toast Berries.

  • Plain Pastry Sift together two and one-half cups of pastry flour, a teaspoonful of baking powder and half a teaspoonful of salt; work in half a cup of shortening, then stir in cold water as is needed to make a paste.

  • TO USE Use one and one-half cups of this mixture in place of the yeast cake.

  • Beat to thoroughly mix and then add Two tablespoonfuls syrup, Two tablespoonfuls shortening, One teaspoonful salt, One and one-half cups flour, Two teaspoonfuls baking powder.

  • Scald and pour into the bowl One and one-half cups of milk.

  • Plain White Cake Beat a quarter of a cup of butter to a cream; add gradually one and a half cups of sugar.

  • Beat two eggs until light, add to them a half pint of water or stock; stir into this one and a half cups of flour, beat until smooth, add a teaspoonful of baking powder and the meat.

  • One and a half cups suet, chopped very fine and mixed thoroughly with three cups of flour; one tablespoonful of cinnamon, one cup molasses or sugar, and one cup sour milk.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half cups" 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:
    congressional action; eyes and; first appears; good title; half acre; half afraid; half aloud; half asleep; half calf; half centuries; half days; half dram; half feet; half inches; half knots; half leagues; half length; half long; half million; half minutes; half rations; half smiling; half tons; hundred ways; lyke wyse; threw himself