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Tablespoonful

Tablespoonful \Ta"ble*spoon`ful\, n.; pl. Tablespoonfuls. As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.

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tablespoonful

n. 1 The capacity of a tablespoon (table implement). 2 A tablespoon (measure of volume).

WordNet
tablespoonful

n. as much as a tablespoon will hold [syn: tablespoon]

Usage examples of "tablespoonful".

Score and scale the bluefish and put it into a buttered pan with three tablespoonfuls each of white wine and mushroom liquor, a tablespoonful of chopped onion, half a dozen chopped mushrooms and salt and pepper to season.

Scale and score a two-pound bluefish, and put in a buttered baking-dish with three tablespoonfuls each of mushroom liquor and white wine, and salt and pepper to season.

Put the remaining onion into a stew pan, with a tablespoonful of butter, a half-tablespoonful of flour, and after it boils up once, add a half-cup of milk, a teaspoonful of parsley, salt and pepper, boil up again, pour over onions and serve.

Put half a pound of fresh butter in a pan with two tablespoonfuls of chopped parsley, the juice of a couple of lemons, a little salt and white pepper and mix together well with a spatula, and when it boils stir quickly.

Slightly brown a tablespoonful of butter and a dessertspoonful of flour in a saucepan, put in the lettuce, let it cook up once or twice, then add a half-cup of stock and boil thoroughly, just before serving add a gill of cream and give a sprinkle of nutmeg if the flavor is liked.

Small spicules of bone were removed, and a cloth was placed on the battered skull to receive the discharges for the inspection of the surgeon, who on his arrival saw at least two tablespoonfuls of cerebral substance on this cloth.

Melt one tablespoonful of butter, add two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, and gradually, as the cheese melts, the yolk of an egg beaten smooth with one fourth of a cupful of cream.

Boil for five minutes, add two tablespoonfuls each of chopped mushrooms and cooked beef tongue or ham.

Fry in butter two tablespoonfuls of minced parsley and one tablespoonful of chopped mushrooms and shallots.

Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add two chopped mushrooms and two boned and pounded anchovies.

Add to the sauce three tablespoonfuls of essence of anchovy and some mushrooms and small button onions fried brown in butter.

Fry a chopped onion in butter, add half a dozen chopped mushrooms, three tablespoonfuls of chopped cooked egg-plant, and a teaspoonful of minced parsley.

Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add a pint of oysters, with their liquor, and the yolks of two eggs, well beaten.

Stuff the fish with drained oysters and seasoned crumbs, adding two tablespoonfuls of butter in small bits.

Mix together one cupful of oysters, two cupfuls of bread-crumbs, two tablespoonfuls of butter, one egg, and a small onion, chopped.