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Example sentences for "fine sieve"

  • Then strain through a fine sieve to remove all the seeds.

  • Bake 4 large potatoes; when soft scoop out the inside and rub through a fine sieve.

  • Drain and rub off the inner skin and cook until tender in good stock, drain and rub them through a fine sieve.

  • Powder French Chalk, sift it through a fine sieve, put it in a box, and strew on it a quantity of Jasmine Flowers; shut down the lid close, and add fresh Flowers every four and twenty hours.

  • Beat it to powder, and sprinkle it with Rose-water; then dry it again, sift it through a fine sieve, and mix with it a small quantity of any of the preceding powders.

  • Press through a fine sieve, add the milk, and freeze as directed on page 7.

  • Strain through a fine sieve, and, when very cold, add the Sultanas and the remaining cream.

  • Cook until soft and then rub through a fine sieve.

  • Clear tomato soup: To one quart of stock add one cupful of canned tomatoes, rubbed through a fine sieve.

  • Press very dry and then rub through a fine sieve.

  • Strain essence of anchovy through a fine sieve, and knead it with fresh butter, or salt butter that you have kneaded in cold water previously, and it is ready for use.

  • With a fine sieve, you can make it as fine as you please.

  • It is then mashed through a fine sieve, and is ready for use.

  • Set aside a few minutes, then strain into stone jars through a fine sieve, and when cold tie up tightly with paper and cloth.

  • Strain through a fine sieve, then put on to boil again, and add half a cup of white sugar and the peel of half a lemon.

  • Turn this into the sauce, stir for a moment; strain through a fine sieve; add half a teaspoon of salt and serve.

  • When well heated, mash the fruit well with a wooden potato masher, then strain through a fine sieve, being careful to get every drop of substance from the fruit.

  • Take two parts of common soda, one part of pumice stone, and one part of finely powdered chalk; sift it through a fine sieve, and mix it with water.

  • Sifting is frequently required for powdered substances, and this is usually done by employing a fine sieve, or tying the powder up in a piece of muslin, and striking it against the left hand over a piece of paper.

  • Pound them in a mortar, rub the pulp through a fine sieve, pot it, cover it with clarified butter, and keep it in a cool place.

  • Strip and bruise some ripe currants, strain them through a fine sieve, and sweeten the juice with refined sugar.

  • Strain it through a fine sieve, and boil the water, which must be small in quantity, adding some milk while it is doing.

  • When foreign cayenne is pounded, it is mixed with a considerable portion of salt, to prevent its injuring the eyes: but English chillies may be pounded in a deep mortar without any danger, and afterwards passed through a fine sieve.

  • Pick twelve pounds of raspberries and pass them through a fine sieve to extract the seeds, boil as many pounds of sugar as you had pounds of fruit to the sixth degree (No.

  • The ashes, for this purpose, should be dry, and passed through a fine sieve.

  • This operation consists, as before observed, in passing the mixture through different sized sieves, employing also parchment sieves, and afterwards separating the dust by a fine sieve.

  • All the preparation it undergoes, when thus used, is to reduce it to powder in a mortar, and to pass it through a fine sieve.

  • They are made in the following manner: The composition being well mixed, and passed through a fine sieve, is made into a paste, with gum arabic and brandy.

  • Add a little boiling water, mash the vegetables smooth and press them through a fine sieve.

  • When tender mash through a fine sieve, return to the fire, let it come to a boil, stir in a heaping tablespoonful of butter, a heaping teaspoonful of flour, season with salt and pepper and a tiny pinch of mace.

  • Put the skins and stems in a saucepan with a cup of boiling water and boil ten minutes, strain and add to this water the mushroom flaps chopped very fine, and cook until tender, then press through a fine sieve.

  • Let these very gently simmer for half an hour, skimming frequently; strain through a fine sieve, and return to the stewpan.

  • Strain it through a fine sieve into a jug, and, when nearly cold, pour it into a well-oiled mould, omitting the sediment at the bottom.

  • When it boils, remove the scum as it rises, and keep it boiling until no more appears, and the syrup looks perfectly clear; then strain it through a fine sieve or muslin bag, and put it back into the saucepan.

  • When done, strain it through a fine sieve or flannel bag; and when cold, the jelly should be quite transparent.

  • For agglomerating the platinum, the spongy mass is pounded in bronze mortars; the powder is passed through a fine sieve, and put into a cylinder of the intended size of the ingot.

  • As soon as the clay has become friable in the furnace it is taken out, reduced to powder, and passed through a fine sieve.

  • Unless the potato is carefully forced through a fine sieve, the candy made from it will have hard and gluey spots after it has dried out.

  • Steam or boil Irish potatoes, drain them, and force them through a fine sieve,--the finer the better.

  • The "fine sieve," be it noted, plays a conspicuous and important part in the making of candy from vegetables.

  • To make the uncooked, boil or steam Irish potatoes, drain, and force them through a fine sieve.


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