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Example sentences for "boil three"

  • Skim with care; put in the white and shell of an egg; boil three minutes; take from the fire and pour into a broad pan to cool.

  • Put the gravy into a saucepan; add a little chopped onion; boil three minutes, thicken with browned flour; and stir in the chopped mushrooms.

  • Boil three cups of string-beans—rid of all the fibres and cut small—in hot salted water until very tender.

  • Have a pot of boiling water--put in your corn and let it boil three minutes--then cut it from the cobs and put it in pans in a warm oven.

  • A good preventive against flies is, to boil three or four leeks in a pint of water, and then with a gilding-brush wash over the glasses and frames with the liquid, and the flies will not go near the articles so washed.

  • Boil three pounds of potatoes to a pulp in a quart of water; strain through a sieve, and brush the satin with it on a board or table.

  • Damp may be prevented from exuding from walls by first drying them thoroughly, and then covering them with the following mixture: In a quart of linseed oil, boil three ounces of litharge, and four ounces of resin.

  • Set it over the fire in a stewpan with salt and water; half boil it.

  • Then take out the chickens, and put a penny roll to soak in the liquor; take all the flesh of the chickens from the bones, and pound it in a mortar, with the yolk of three eggs boiled hard.

  • Pour off the liquor, cover them with clarified butter, and lay them by for use.

  • Boil three pounds of lump sugar in a gallon of water; skim it clean, put in a handful of balm, and boil it ten minutes.

  • Another way is to boil three pints of water with an ounce and a half of tamarinds, three ounces of currants, and two ounces of stoned raisins, till nearly a third is consumed.

  • To make a cheap and excellent custard, boil three pints of new milk with a bit of lemon peel, a bit of cinnamon, two or three bay leaves, and sweeten it.

  • Boil three pounds of moist sugar in three quarts of water, and skim it clean.

  • Strain the liquid in which your frogs' legs were cooked, add to it two yolks of eggs well mixed in about a tablespoonful of water, a tablespoonful of chopped parsley; boil three or four minutes, and serve.

  • Boil three-quarters of an hour and stir constantly.

  • Boil three minutes, and pour over top of the cake.

  • The middling is generally used for this purpose: cut a piece about a foot square, boil three hours.

  • Boil three pints of milk, and while hot, pour on the gelatine, stirring till dissolved.

  • Let it boil three hours, or until the flesh will slip easily from the bones.

  • Boil three minutes, stirring well; put in a lump of butter the size of an egg rolled in flour, a little salt and a pinch of pepper; add a little parsley; boil up well and turn into a covered dish.

  • Boil three-quarters of an hour longer, skimming often with a silver spoon.

  • Boil three pounds of veal with a handful of sweet herbs, and a little mace; when well boiled strain it through a sieve, skim off all the fat.

  • Boil three or four hours in boiling water in very large kettle or boiler.

  • Boil three half-pints of milk in a saucepan (previously wet with cold water, which prevents burning) and whisk it into the soup.

  • Dissolve the chocolate in a very little milk, stir into the boiling water and boil three minutes.

  • Boil three table-spoonfuls of soaked sago in a pint of milk till quite soft.

  • Harvey sauce, and two of good stock; boil three minutes; finish with a little sugar, and pour it in the dish, but not over the fish.

  • Boil three cauliflowers as before, and when done drain them upon a cloth, then put a pint of good white sauce (No.

  • Boil three pounds of granulated sugar, one cup of cold water and half a teaspoonful of cream of tartar until thick--or in the "ball" stage.

  • Boil three minutes or until it hardens on a cold plate.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boil three" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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