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The stone jars weighed a pound, and in each was found a little over a tea-spoonful of jam.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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· Wash the affected areas with clean water - preferably water which has been boiled and cooled - mixed with a little salt (one tea-spoonful of salt to one litre of clean water) or gentian violet solution (one teaspoonful of gentian violet crystals in half a litre of clean water).
Chapter 6 1993
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Ingredients, one pound of flour, eight ounces of butter or lard, three gills of water, half an ounce of salt, a tea-spoonful of baking-powder.
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli
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If the liquid medicine is used, add 1 drop to a gill of water, and use tea-spoonful doses as above directed.
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A tea-spoonful taken occasionally will soon relieve the most troublesome cough.
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli
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Ingredients, one pound of flour, half a pint of hot milk, a tea-spoonful of salt, a pinch of baking-powder; bake them a quarter of an hour.
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli
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I have seen as little as a tea-spoonful of rice given on such occasions, when the sulky and grumbling mendicant took his reluctant departure towards the next door, where he would, perhaps, meet similar treatment with a repetition of "curses not loud, but deep."
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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Through one of the holes drop in about half a tea-spoonful of shot and the same quantity of pellets of bees-wax or tallow.
Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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Shred down the suet small, removing any flesh or cellular membrane adhering to it; then mix amongst it intimately 1/2 oz. of salt and a tea-spoonful of pepper to every pound of suet; put the mixture into an earthen jar, and tie up tightly with bladder.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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Ingredients, one pound of flour, half a pint of treacle, two ounces of butter, half an ounce of ground ginger, a pinch of allspice, a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda, and a pinch of salt.
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli
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