soupbowlful

plural soupbowlfuls · plural soupbowlsful

1. alternativeAlternative form of soup-bowlful.

   Yield: About eight large soupbowlsful

   1971 March 3, Clara C. Dunning, F. S., “[Easy and economical: What more can one ask of a fine kettle of fish] A fine kettle of fish”, in The Cincinnati Post and Times-Star, late news edition, volume 90, number 41, Cincinnati, Oh.: Scripps-Howard, →OCLC, page 46, column 4

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   1 soupbowlful of grated, dry rye 1 teaspoon butter

   1965, Ingeborg Dahl Jensen, Wonderful, Wonderful Danish Cooking: A Double Cookbook of 500 Danish Recipes, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →LCCN, page 299

   And then we started on soupbowlfuls of ice cream with fresh-frozen strawberries, and I think we got through four of those each before, well, we had to call it a draw.

   1981, Allan Anderson, Roughnecks & Wildcatters, Macmillan of Canada, →ISBN, page 229

   When this, too, starts to blonde add a soupbowlful—we are thinking as usual of four or five persons—of long-grain rice, and a pinch of raw saffron.

   1991, Nicolas Freeling, The Kitchen Book; The Cook Book, Boston, Mass.: David R. Godine, →ISBN, page 134

   Decoct to get 1 soupbowlful (of medicinal liquid).

   1995, transmitted by Patriarch De Chan, recorded and arranged by Monk De Qian, translated by Zhang Ting-liang and Bob Flaws, Secret Shaolin Formulas for the Treatment of External Injury: Chapters One through Ten of Shao Lin Si Mi Fang Ji Jin, Highlights of Shaolin Monastery’s Secret Prescriptions, Blue Poppy Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 5

   Linguine Malafemina was a soupbowlful of linguine with shellfish (two huge scallops, two clams, three mussels, four medium shrimp) and a tomato sauce spiked with lots of thin slices of garlic and a vaguely musty flavor.

   1995 February 24, Helen Schwab, “In Cornelius, turn right or left for Italian”, in The Charlotte Observer, page 10F