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Example sentences for "good colour"

  • Roll the paste into buns, set them on a baking plate rubbed over with a little butter, put them in a moderate oven to prove, then wash them with a paste brush dipped in warm milk, and bake them of a good colour.

  • When it is a good colour cut a square piece out of the top, scoop out the inside, and fill the cavity with fricassee of chickens, or any thing else you please.

  • From bones the sol obtained is of good colour, but is somewhat dull.

  • It is slightly sulphited and gives a good colour.

  • Sulphurous acid is evolved, and its reducing powers assist materially in retaining and promoting a good colour in the product.

  • It gives a "mellow" tannage, but a bright, good colour, which characteristics are imparted to the leather when the material is blended with other materials containing dark or astringent tannins.

  • If the stock is not a good colour put in half a teaspoonful of burnt sugar.

  • Peel the artichokes and lay them in vinegar and water for an hour; this will make them a good colour.

  • Part of the onion skin left on makes a good colour, but it can be coloured by burning half a teaspoonful of sugar in an old spoon, or by a few drops of caramel--the recipe for which is given elsewhere.

  • Plunge into plenty of hot fat and fry until a good colour; drain for a few minutes on kitchen paper.

  • If you wish this soup to be of a good colour, you must only use the outside, or red part, of the carrot, in which case a dozen large carrots will be required.

  • If you wish the jam to be of a good colour, only use the outside or red part of the carrots.

  • The hen lobsters are best for this purpose, as the eggs impart a good colour.

  • If the vinegar be not very pale, the onion will not be of a good colour.

  • We cannot insist too strongly on this point: if the fat is not very hot, you cannot fry fish either to a good colour, or firm and crisp.

  • When they are a good colour, serve with fried parsley.

  • Marinate a piece of boiled salmon for an hour; take out the bone and cut the fish into fillets, wipe them, roll them in flour and dip them in eggs beaten up or in mayonnaise sauce, and fry them a good colour.

  • This will keep the boards of a good colour, and keep away vermin.

  • Rinse it in the usual way, and that is all which is necessary to get it clean, and to keep it in good colour.

  • When the flour is sufficiently done on a slow fire, and has a good colour, moisten it with the liquor, keeping it over the fire till it boils.

  • When they are a good colour, take them off the fire and let them cool; cut them in quarters, take out the seeds and pulp, and put them into cold water.

  • If not a good colour, use a little browning.

  • Put the butter in a saucepan, add the cucumbers, and shake them over a sharp fire until they are of a good colour.

  • Dip them in flour, and fry them of a good colour in a little butter.

  • To prevent the lard from burning, and to insure its being a good colour, it is better to melt it in a jar placed in a saucepan of boiling water; by doing it in this manner, there will be no chance of its discolouring.

  • Bake them in a cool oven; and when of a good colour, take them out of the papers.

  • The small ones are best, provided they are bright, and of a good colour.

  • Flavour the soup with whole pepper, and a head of celery; and to make it of a good colour, draw the gravy from a pound of lean beef over a slow fire, and add a ladleful to the soup, first carefully taking off all the fat.

  • Now boil the spinach, squeeze it very dry, and rub it, with the soup, through a sieve, to give the preparation a good colour.

  • If the tincture be perfectly transparent, and has a good colour, the conscience of the seller and the stomach of the consumer are alike satisfied.

  • It is a good colour, but the expense precludes its general use.


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