Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "cornflour"

Lexicographically close words:
cornetcy; cornetist; cornets; cornfield; cornfields; cornflower; cornflowers; corni; cornice; cornices
  1. Mix a tablespoonful of cornflour smoothly with the milk and stir it in; continue stirring till it boils.

  2. Put the milk into a saucepan to boil, mix the cornflour with a spoonful of cold milk, and when the milk in the saucepan is nearly boiling, stir it in and continue stirring till it boils.

  3. Put half a pint of milk into a saucepan, and when it nearly boils, stir in the cornflour which has been mixed with a little lemon peel and sugar, and pour it on top of the pudding.

  4. Mix the cornflour with a little stock and pour it over.

  5. When nearly boiling thicken with a tablespoonful of cornflour and boil two or three minutes; put in the oysters and simmer for five minutes.

  6. Mix the cornflour with a little cold water and pour it in; stir till it boils up.

  7. Mix the cornflour with a tablespoonful of the vinegar from the walnuts and stir it in, add salt to taste and a small pinch of pepper.

  8. The sick and those in hospital are worst off, as hospital comforts like cornflour and Mellins' Food have long since gone.

  9. This did me good, certainly, but I waited all day for the milk and cornflour and soup.

  10. Raspberry ice can be made in a simpler form by reducing the cream by one-half and by adding another teacupful of milk in which a dessertspoonful of cornflour has been boiled.

  11. Place the cornflour in a basin and squeeze the juice of the fruit through a strainer on to it, then pour the boiling syrup on to this mixture; stir well, return to saucepan, and boil for 6 minutes.

  12. While this is heating beat the eggs in one basin, and mix the cornflour with the remainder of the milk in another.

  13. For those who take eggs, the rissoles may be moistened and bound with a beaten egg instead of the cornflour and water.

  14. Dissolve the cornflour in a little cold water and stir into the boiling apple.

  15. Mix the cornflour with a very little cold water in a basin.

  16. This should afterwards be rubbed through a sieve until a purée is obtained, a pint of boiling milk added, and a teaspoonful of cornflour (previously wetted) stirred in to thicken it.

  17. Then off she goes, taking with her the cornflour together with my sleep.

  18. You say to yourself, 'Will that cornflour never be made?

  19. You can't think how teasing it is to hear the noise of the spoon stirring the cornflour just when you are feeling drowsy.

  20. Melt the chocolate over the fire with 1 tablespoonful of water, add the milk, and stir well; when it boils add the cornflour and vanilla.

  21. Boil the asparagus in the water till tender, add the seasoning, and the cornflour smoothed in the milk, boil up and serve.

  22. Allinson cornflour or potato flour, a little vanilla essence, 1 teaspoonful of sugar.

  23. Boil the milk, thicken it with the cornflour previously smoothed with a little water, add sugar and vanilla, boil up, and serve with the pudding.

  24. Rub the cornflour and meal smooth with a little of the milk; bring the rest to boil with the butter, and stir into it the smooth paste.

  25. Mix smooth the cornflour in 8 tablespoonfuls of water, add this to the juice when hot, and stir the sauce over the fire until thickened; serve at once.

  26. Smooth the meal and cornflour with a little of the milk, bring the rest to the boil, stir in the mixture, add flavouring, let it all simmer for 5 to 8 minutes, stirring all the time.

  27. Set this over the fire with the sugar; meanwhile smooth the cornflour with a little cold water, and thicken the liquid with it when boiling.

  28. Set that over the fire to boil (keeping back a 1/4 of a pint for mixing the cornflour smooth), and add the sugar.

  29. Prepare over night 1 pint of custard made by using 1 dessertspoonful of Allinson cornflour and 2 oz.

  30. Boil the milk with the butter, thicken it with the cornflour smoothed first with a spoonful of water, and last add the grated cheese and seasoning; let the sauce simmer, stirring it until the cheese is dissolved.

  31. When boiling, add the cornflour mixed with a little cold water.

  32. Should the custard be required very thick, 8 eggs should be used, or the milk can first be thickened with a dessertspoonful of Allinson cornflour before mixing it with the 6 eggs.

  33. Separate the yolks of the eggs from the white; beat up the yolks and add them to the cornflour and juice when those are smooth.

  34. Turn it out and serve plain, or with custard, whipped cream, or milk thickened with cornflour (see Cheap Custard).

  35. Lastly, stir in the cornflour and add the baking powder.

  36. Put the cornflour into a pie-dish with the sugar.

  37. Couldn't Mary have made the cornflour or have looked after baby for the time?

  38. She seemed very sleepy when I gave her her cornflour at seven.

  39. Then beat up a fresh egg in milk and add as much arrowroot or cornflour as will lie flat in a salt spoon.

  40. A mold of cornflour or of ground rice may be eaten with this.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cornflour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.