The phrase "a cup and a half of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in cooking or baking recipes to indicate a specific measurement of an ingredient.
Example: "For this cake recipe, you will need a cup and a half of sugar to achieve the right sweetness."
Alternatives: "one and a half cups of" or "1.5 cups of".
That's the equivalent of having a cup and a half of coffee, with ten sugars.
He let the soup cook 10 minutes more, then added a cup and a half of fresh peas from a small glass bowl.
"You can't understand how important a grain mill is," she says, "until you've spent three hours pounding grain and gotten a cup and a half of flour".
The chef, Steven Picker, first makes a simple syrup by boiling and stirring a cup and a half of sugar with a cup of water until the granules dissolve.
Subhendu Mukherjee, Dipak K. Das and colleagues prepared garlic slurries containing about two ounces of garlic (10 to 20 cloves, depending on size) in about a cup and a half of water.
What surprised me about the recipe for the base dough, or d?empe, for puff pastry was that it called for about a cup and a half of water without specifying cold or hot.
Each morning, after a strict overnight fast, Paula Wolfert drinks a cup-and-a-half of hot water with lemon, followed by a "bulletproof coffee" made from unsalted butter and coconut oil.
Likewise, a man's closed fist is usually about a cup to a cup-and-a-half of grain or starch -- pasta, rice, potato, beans -- and enough for a meal.
If you want a cup of cooked muesli, in other words, boil a half cup of water and a half cup of milk, then add a half cup of raw muesli to it.
So, for example, if your recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups of flour, use both a one-cup dry measuring cup and a half-cup dry measuring cup.
Take a cup and pour the tea until half of the cup is full.
