dishfuls

Desperate Dan-style dishfuls of good pub grub (rib-eye steak, sinful onion rings, sausages on heaps of mash) with real beer from Herefordshire's Wye Valley, and Shropshire's Three Tuns and Salopian breweries.

Hotel review | Annie's Ecolog Cabin, Ludlow 2010

The rain soon came down, -- not in drops, but dishfuls.

The Giraffe Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

And it was called the "Churn-supper" because, from immemorial times, it was customary to produce in a churn a great quantity of cream, and to circulate it by dishfuls to each of the rustic company, to be eaten with bread.

Eugene Aram — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

And it was called the "Churn-supper" because, from immemorial times, it was customary to produce in a churn a great quantity of cream, and to circulate it by dishfuls to each of the rustic company, to be eaten with bread.

Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

And she had so deft a way of first thinking out what new things would be likely to go well together, and then mixing things that no one ever thought of mixing before, which yet turned into the most delightful dishfuls, that the sea-kings who dined with Sigurd jestingly declared that but one thing prevented some one's making war on him in hope of capturing Edith for himself, and that was the surety that if he won he then would have to fight all the others!

The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages John Preston True