Have ready a nice clean woodenfirkin or tub, properly scalded and sunned.
Wash them off, and put on in clear hot water, and boil till done, then take them up and throw them into a firkin of clean salt and water; keep closely covered to prevent them from molding.
Wrap each roll in a piece of old table cloth, and put in a sweet firkin or stone jar which has been washed with soda water, scalded and sunned for a month before using.
No butterfirkin mit no kiver no place, no I ain’t seen him.
I say, old feller, you ain’t seed nothing of no old butter firkin with no kiver on, no place about here?
He would send a bag of potatoes or peas, and he never sent less than a firkin of butter--delicious butter from Orange County.
The bottom of a butter firkin can stand what is reasonable, but what self-respecting firkin will submit to everything?
Hoo--" She was about to give another cheer, but a tall butter firkin on which she had been standing because it put her sharp nose and sharp eyes just above the shoulders of other people, here refused to serve as a lookout any longer.
One of these like the butter firkin on shore, could not patiently submit to everything, and--broke!
Down he came, partly in the firkinand partly outside of it, falling in a very mixed condition.
Without waiting for an answer from the club, he called out to Cook Charlie, "Where is that butter firkin I saw round here?
Cranberries keep very well in a firkin of water in the cellar, and if so kept, can be stewed fresh at any time during the winter.
Strain it into a jar or firkin that will hold a half a pailful more of water.
It should be kept in a firkin or tub, with a close cover.
Cranberries will keep all winter in a firkinof water in the cellar.
He cheats him out of his share of a firkin of butter in No.
Then he ran off straight to the firkin and ate a good third part of it.
His long, half-round steel butter probe or tryer was thrust down the centre of the firkin to the bottom, given a turn or two, and withdrawn, its tapering cavity filled with a sample of every inch of butter in the firkin.
The latter had questioned the correctness of the weight of the empty firkin which was to be deducted as tare from the total weight.
Dowie said, "I will," and in a moment there stood on the scales the naked firkin of butter, sweating drops of salt water.
The firkin butter was usually sold to a local butter buyer named Dowie.
I hope he will not try that firkin I packed that hot week in July," Mother would say.
Night and noon and morning she brought the abominable drinks ordained by the Doctor, and made her patient swallow them with so affecting an obedience that Firkin said "my poor Missus du take her physic like a lamb.
She was so naturally good and soft, that even Firkin was not jealous of her; and the gentle Briggs thought her friend was less cruel to her when kind Lady Jane was by.
Just as Briggs had finished reading this affecting and interesting document, which reinstated her in her position as first confidante of Miss Crawley, Mrs. Firkin entered the room.
In fact, Mrs. Firkin had that natural jealousy which is one of the main principles of every honest woman.
Bowls andFirkin likewise received their legacies and their dismissals, and married and set up a lodging-house, according to the custom of their kind.
Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision; and her company was the fat spaniel in the drawing-room, or occasionally the discontented Firkin in the housekeeper's closet.
Thank you"; and Firkin came downstairs in a tempest of jealousy, only the more dangerous because she was forced to confine it in her own bosom.
The yokes seem equally adapted to everything, from a butter-firkin to a silk handkerchief full of cabbages.
Perhaps," said Firkin at last, "Kurz Pacha means to say that to offer flowers to a lady who has already so beautiful a bouquet, would be to carry coals to Newcastle.
Mr. Firkin said he bought an astonishing number of gloves that morning, and suddenly remembered that he wanted cravats.
The Sennaar Ambassador opened his eyes wide, and offered Mr. Firkin his snuff-box.
D'Orsay Firkin said that the Hotel Bristol was more récherché.
Sometimes the young men went with us, and D'Orsay Firkin confided to me one of his adventures, which was very romantic.
Mr. Firkin says he has often seen Frenchmen watching him, as he stood in the shop, with the most quizzical expression, and once or twice he has thought he heard suppressed laughter from a group of the other girls and the French gentlemen.
I should say the trick has taken her," whispered Mr. Firkin at my elbow to Kurz Pacha.
The Pacha didn't play; but he asked Mr. Firkin what was a good average for a man, in the game.
My dear sir, there are Commissionaires at all the hotels who are perfect linguists," said Mr. Firkin in a gentlemanly manner.
I'm sure it was an innocent question; but they all fell to laughing again, and Mr. Firkinpositively cried with fun.
I saw nothing particular in that speech of Mr. Boosey's; and yet D'Orsay Firkin smiled to himself as he told Mrs. Gnu it was her turn.
In a word, Miss Philly Firkin was certainly a prosperous, and, as times go, a tolerably happy woman.
A firkin should never be filled in a single operation.
Nor was he content with giving us our personal fill; into every crevice of our firkin he packed a pellet of future indigestion.
Eight gallons one firkin make, Of liquor that's call'd ale Nine gallons one firkin of beer, Whether 'tis mild or stale.
Previous to packing, the firkin is scalded with hot water, rinsed and cooled with cold water, then rubbed all around with fine salt; this prevents the butter from adhering to the sides of the firkin.
It then stands till it is to be sent to market, when the cloth and salt are removed, the firkin turned down, the top of the butter in the keg washed with cold water, and the pickle drained off.
When thefirkin is full, a linen cloth is placed over the top of the butter; on this cloth a covering of salt is put one inch deep, and cold water enough added to it to form a brine.
The firkin is now neatly headed up and sent to market.
At one time he brought among his provisions a small firkin of butter, a great luxury at that time.
He was gone all day and returned late in the evening, and looking around could not see his firkin of butter.
He took the firkinand set it in the shade of a great red-wood, tumbled off the rest of his goods, picketed his mule, and went off prospecting for gold, telling Rover to take care of the things until he returned.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firkin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
