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Example sentences for "each pound"

  • Take a neck and breast of lamb, wash it, and to each pound of meat add a quart of water, and a tea spoonful of salt.

  • To each pound of the pulp obtained according to the above receipt for jelly, add one pound of white sugar; boil the whole until it is perfectly smooth.

  • Stone and stew some morella cherries; to each pound of cherries add three-quarters of a pound of sugar, and one tea spoonful of flour, mixed smoothly with a little water.

  • Weigh the fruit and add a pound of sugar to each pound of fruit.

  • Allow a quart of water to each pound of veal.

  • If you prefer butter to suet for making the paste, allow half a pound of fresh butter to each pound of flour.

  • Allow a small quart of water to each pound of meat, and sprinkle on a table-spoonful of salt and a very little black pepper.

  • Next morning, early as possible, as soon as the fire is well made up, put the beef into a large soup-pot, allowing to each pound a small quart of water.

  • Allow one quart of cold water to each pound of meat and bone.

  • Place the joints in a saucepan with a quart of water to each pound of fowl.

  • Allow fifteen minutes to each pound, and baste frequently.

  • Boil slowly, allowing about a quarter of an hour to each pound.

  • It is fair to allow at least a quarter of an hour to each pound.

  • Make it into a sirup with a teacup of water to each pound, and skim carefully.

  • Let it boil steadily, but very slowly, allowing an hour to each pound of meat.

  • Break it up, and to each pound allow a gill of water and an ounce of isinglass.

  • Weigh them, and to each pound of fruit allow half a pound of loaf-sugar.

  • To each pound of sugar allow half a pint of water, and half the white of an egg; thus four pounds of sugar will require a quart of water and the whites of two eggs.

  • The remains of cold roast beef; to each pound of cold meat allow 1/4 lb.

  • The remains of cold roast beef; to each pound of meat allow 3/4 lb.

  • Make a syrup of three-fourths pound of sugar to each pound of apples.

  • Then weigh them, and to each pound of berries allow a half pound of sugar.

  • Peel the tomatoes and to each pound add a pound of sugar and let stand over night.

  • Make a syrup by boiling three-quarters of their weight in sugar with water, allowing one cup of water to each pound of sugar.

  • Peel and cut the rhubarb into small pieces, take the rind of one lemon, cut into chips; to each two pounds of the rhubarb then weigh three quarters of a pound of white sugar to each pound of the fruit.

  • Cover thickly with egg and bread crumbs and bake in a good oven fifteen minutes to each pound of meat.

  • Wash and quarter fresh, firm crab-apples and cover with water allowing one quart of water to each pound of fruit.

  • Baste often and allow fifteen minutes to each pound.

  • Take to each pound of raspberries half a pint of juice of red and white currants, an equal quantity of each, in the whole half a pint, and a pound of double-refined sugar.

  • To each pound of sugar put half a pint of water; boil the syrup well, and put the fruit into it.

  • To each pound of fruit add an equal quantity of sugar, which clarify with as little water as possible, and skim it thoroughly; then put in the fruit, and boil it gently till it begins to break.

  • For boiling or roasting mutton, allow a quarter of an hour to each pound of meat.

  • Allow fifteen minutes boiling to each pound of meat.

  • If it is a thick piece, allow fifteen minutes to each pound to roast it in--if thin, less time will be required.

  • Rub half of the shortening with two-thirds of the flour--to each pound of flour put a tea-spoonful of salt.

  • Weigh out a pound of white sugar, allowing a pound of it to each pound of fruit, lay your pine apples in a deep dish, on each layer of it sprinkle some of your sugar, (which should be powdered.

  • For boiling or roasting mutton, allow a quarter of an hour to each pound.

  • Boil your melons in fresh water, with a handful of peach leaves, and the ginger, allowing half an ounce to each pound of fruit.

  • If the meat is a thick piece allow fifteen minutes to each pound, to roast it in, if thin less time will be required.

  • Having poured the batch on the slab, color one-third of it chocolate; this is done by kneeding into the batch about one and one-half ounces of melted chocolate to each pound.

  • In making Jordan Cream Almonds, use only one and a half or two pounds of Sugar to each pound of Nuts.

  • Mix very thoroughly with two ounces of butter melted in two tablespoonfuls of milk to each pound of fish and potato, a saltspoonful of salt, half as much pepper, a pinch of dry mustard, and two hard-boiled eggs cut very small.

  • For a small family, a part of the loin should be purchased, a little stuffing of sage and finely minced onion introduced, and the joint cooked in a slightly greased bag, allowing twenty-five minutes to each pound.

  • Then place in a large and very thoroughly greased bag, add to each pound of fruit two ounces of sugar and any flavouring preferred, a teaspoonful of lemon juice, one of sherry or of essence of vanilla or almond.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "each pound" 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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