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Example sentences for "dozen cloves"

  • Put them in a stew-pan with salt, cayenne pepper, one tea spoonful of whole allspice, half a dozen cloves, and four or five blades of mace.

  • To each quart of the vinegar, put one table spoonful of whole allspice, half a table spoonful of pepper grains, three or four small pieces of mace, half a dozen cloves, and a table spoonful of mustard seed.

  • If you wish the mushrooms to be of a dark colour when pickled, add half a dozen cloves to each bag of spice; but the clove-taste will most likely overpower that of the mushrooms.

  • Afterwards leave it one day undisturbed; and then pour off the liquid through a funnel into a bottle; in the bottom of which you have put half a dozen cloves or a spoonful of brandy, either of which will prevent the ink from moulding.

  • Then pour it through a funnel into a bottle that has half a dozen cloves in it.

  • Add an onion, a dozen cloves, and two tablespoonfuls of vinegar.

  • Put a couple of tablespoonfuls of red currant jelly into a small stew-pan, with half a dozen cloves, a small stick of cinnamon, and the rind of an orange.

  • Put them into a stew-pan with a penny roll cut into thin slices, half a dozen cloves, and three pints of water.

  • Put in with it some whole black pepper, a little salt, and half a dozen cloves, tied up in a bit of cloth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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