ladlesful

With a spatula, begin stirring and adding ladlesful of warmed chicken stock, stirring until each spoonful has been absorbed.

Summer Corn and Roasted Red Pepper Risotto 2006

Or, if these were not sufficient, and the enemy proved to be very enterprising indeed, so much so as to try and batter in the hugely-thick iron-studded belfry-door, why there were those pleasant openings called by architects machicolations, just over the entrance, from which ladlesful of newly molten lead could be scattered upon their heads.

The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias George Manville Fenn 1870