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Example sentences for "gentle fire"

  • Melt two ounces of butter and mix thoroughly with it two ounces of flour on a gentle fire.

  • Put your saucepan again on a gentle fire, stir well until the sauce thickens; strain, and serve.

  • Place a delicately-clean frying-pan over a gentle fire; put in the fat, and allow it to come to the boiling-point.

  • Place the pan over a gentle fire, and keep the water simmering until the white looks nicely set, when the egg is ready.

  • Add sufficient lump sugar to sweeten the mixture, and a little grated nutmeg; put all into a very clean saucepan, set it on a gentle fire, and stir the contents one way until they thicken, but do not allow them to boil.

  • Put them all together into a stew-pan with some gravy; thicken it with a little butter rolled in flour; season it with a little pepper and salt, and set it over a gentle fire to simmer for five minutes, frequently shaking them about.

  • Take of clear Water four pounds, white Sugar five pounds, boil them in a glazed vessel over a gentle fire, scumming it till half the water be consumed, then by putting in two pounds of white Wine Vinegar by degrees, perfect the Syrup.

  • Fill a glass or stone alembick with the best Vinegar to the third part, separate the flegm with a gentle fire, then encrease the fire by degrees, and perform the work.

  • Chop it very fine, put the butter into a stewpan, and lay the spinach over that; stir it over a gentle fire, and dredge in the flour.

  • Choose some very fine bacon streaked with a good deal of lean; cut this into very thin slices, and afterwards into small square pieces; throw them into a stewpan and set it over a gentle fire, that they may lose some of their fat.

  • Fry these over a gentle fire, gradually stirring them until of a light brown colour, when they are fit for use.

  • Lute on a receiver with wet bladder, and distil with a gentle fire; yet so that the drops which fall from the nose of the alembic may succeed one another pretty quick, and form a sort of small continued stream.

  • Set it over a gentle fire, and continue stirring it incessantly, that the two ingredients of which it is compounded may gradually combine together, as part of the water evaporates.

  • Cover the crucible; set it in a melting furnace; and begin with a gentle fire to heat the crucible equally.

  • Continue the coction with a gentle fire, always stirring the matter, till it becomes so thick that a drop of it fixes, as it cools, into the consistence that Soap ought to have.

  • Then put your proportion of Sugar to the whole quantity of pulp, and so make it up into paste, and dry it, and sometimes before a gentle fire, sometimes in a very moderate stove.

  • After this boil it softly over a gentle fire, and scum it.

  • Mill it off the fire till quite melted, then on a gentle fire till it boil; pour it into a bason, and it will keep in a cool place eight or ten days or more.

  • Strain the liquor on half a pound of sugar pounded, stir it over a gentle fire; and when it begins to thicken, add a piece of butter the size of a small walnut.

  • If it be a little underdone, the best way to warm it up is to sprinkle over a little salt, and put it into a Dutch oven at some distance before a gentle fire, that it may warm gradually.

  • Put four ounces of lump sugar, a gill of water, and half an ounce of fine butter into a small tosser, and set it over a gentle fire.

  • Meanwhile beat the butter in the omelet pan; when boiling pour the mixture into it, and fry the omelet over a gentle fire.

  • Meanwhile have the butter boiling hot in an omelet pan, pour the mixture into it, and let it fry over a gentle fire.

  • The aqua which parts the one from the other is poured into it, and the ampulla is placed in sand contained in an earthen vessel, or in a box, that it may be warmed with a gentle fire.

  • Afterward add two Ounces of Frankincense well pulveriz'd, with eight Ounces of Venice Turpentine, mixing 'em together over a gentle Fire, and the Balsam will be made.

  • If it be not {180} already dry enough, you may dry it up with a gentle Fire in the Sand, stirring it with an Ivory or Wooden Spatula in the Cucurbite it self till it be reduc'd to Powder.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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