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Example sentences for "boiling water"

  • Put all this into a fit Pipkin, and set this in a great one, or a kettle of boiling water, till it be stiffened like a Custard.

  • Cover your dish with another, and set it upon a great pot of boiling water, with a good space between the water and the dish, that there be room for the hot steam to rise and strike upon the dish.

  • Put the Woodden-dish thus filled and tyed up into a great Possnet or little Kettle of boiling water.

  • Serve either very cold, or place the cup containing the juice in a bowl of boiling water, stir carefully, and as soon as the juice is warm serve.

  • Take two large iron tablespoonfuls of oatmeal freshly cooked for breakfast, add one cup of boiling water, slowly stirring all the time, then add an equal quantity of milk.

  • Cover with crumbs, dot with butter and add sufficient boiling water to keep from burning.

  • Pour over two tablespoonfuls of tomato catsup and half a cupful of boiling water.

  • Add gradually three tablespoonfuls of olive-oil, then the same quantity of boiling water, then one tablespoonful of lemon-juice.

  • Take out the fish and add to the sauce half a teaspoonful of beef extract, dissolved in half a cupful of boiling water.

  • Put nearly all the milk and all the sugar into a 3-pint jug and stand in a saucepan of boiling water.

  • Blanch the almonds by steeping them in boiling water for a few minutes: the skins may then be easily removed; chop very finely, or put through a mincer.

  • This is poured into a pint of boiling water, well stirred until it comes to the boil again and then left to boil for five minutes, after which it is done.

  • Stem and wash half a pound of sultana raisins; let them stand, covered with one quart of boiling water, upon the back of the range an hour or more; filter the water through folds of cheese-cloth and use in making cocoa or chocolate.

  • Put over the fire in boiling water, and, after cooking three or four minutes, drain, rinse in cold water, and put on to cook in boiling salted water to cover.

  • A scratch is made on the tube to indicate the point to which the mercury rises when the bulb is placed in boiling water, and this point is marked 212°.

  • The temperature of boiling water is 100° C.

  • If one holds a cold lid in the steam of boiling water, drops of water gather on the lid; the steam is cooled by contact with the cold lid and condenses into water.

  • The space between these two points, which represent the temperatures of boiling water and of melting ice, is divided into 180 equal parts called degrees.

  • Dissolve one ounce of Roman vitriol in a quart of boiling water, to which is added one ounce of pearlash; the mixture should then be forcibly agitated, and a small quantity of pulverised yellow arsenic stirred in.

  • If it be necessary to add fresh warm water, let him be either removed the while, or let it not be put in when very hot; for if boiling water be added to increase the heat of the bath, it naturally ascends, and may scald him.

  • Boiling water (about one quart) 1 pint tomatoes 2 cups cooked spinach Soak beans over night; drain.

  • As, however, the temperature of boiling water at the level of the sea varies at Calcutta between July and January almost from 210.

  • It is made by pouring half a pint of boiling water on to a large tablespoonful of the jelly or jam.

  • Only a silver or bone spoon should be used, and, needless to say, it must be well scalded in boiling water in the intervals of using.

  • Pour on 1 pint of boiling water (distilled).

  • One ounce of the leaves to 12 tablespoonfuls of boiling water make a tea, half a tea-cup of which may be taken several times a day.

  • Dissolve the saltpetre that you wish to purify, in an equal measure of boiling water; a cupful of one to a cupful of the other.

  • Boiling water makes a solution forty-fold stronger than ice-cold water, and about eight times stronger than water at 60 degrees Fahr.

  • Color to the tint required with ground amber and sienna in oil; mix the ingredients by first melting the plaster in a vessel in boiling water.

  • When cool it is of a dark green color, and as hard as resin, not becoming liquid at a temperature about that of boiling water.

  • Cut four large apples in slices, and pour over a quart of boiling water, let them stand till cold, strain the liquor, and sweeten with white sugar; a little lemon peel put with the apples improves the flavour.

  • WATER-PROOF Mix equal quantities of alum and acetate of lead, and dissolve the mixture in 1-1/2 gallons of boiling water.

  • Any article of dress, when well saturated in this liquid, and allowed to dry slowly, bears the action of boiling water, and does not permit it to pass through, although steam and air penetrate if freely.


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