table-spoonful

Others just fly and collect what comes to them as part of the huge black shoal of open mouths, sieving the sky like a baleen whale or a basking shark: “from the mouth of a swift which had been shot, a table-spoonful of insects was extracted.”

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Having put into my tea a table-spoonful of the salt, mistaking it for sugar, and there being no sugar, I had two strong reasons for not taking much tea.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

Rougierre, and ordered her a table-spoonful of brandy and some drops of laudanum whenever the pain of stomach returned.

Uncle Silas 2003

-- One table-spoonful of red lead, and one tablespoonful of castile soap, and mix them with as much weak lye as will make it soft enough to spread like a salve, and apply it on the first appearance of the felon, and it will cure in ten or twelve days.

Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis

Elsie stood waiting impatiently, but as he did not return, she took up the milk-jug, and emptied its contents, about a table-spoonful of bluey-white milk, into the cup she had used.

Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

Take a table-spoonful of corrosive sublimate; quicksilver about the size of a bean; 3 or 4 drops of muriatic acid; iodine about the size of a pea, and lard enough to form a paste; grind the iodine and sublimate fine as flour, and put altogether in a cup, mix well, then shear the hair all off the size you want; wash clean with soap-suds, rub dry, then apply the medicine.

The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses P. R. Kincaid

One quart of water, three pounds of sugar, one teaspoonful of lemon oil, one table-spoonful of flour, with the white of four eggs, well beat up.

The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses P. R. Kincaid

In cases where the stomach tolerates fluid, as our ability to await the action of the battery and capsicum have now enabled us to find Mr. Edgerton's, we may give from fifteen to twenty drops of the ordinary pharmaceutical tincture of nux vomica in a table-spoonful of water.

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

_Macaroni and cheese_: Three-fourths cup macaroni broken in pieces; two quarts boiling water; one-half table-spoonful salt.

Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker

Two table-spoonfuls sugar; one table-spoonful butter; one table-spoonful milk; one well-beaten egg; four atoms of cream of tartar; two atoms of soda; flour enough to make a batter.

Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various