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Example sentences for "great spoonful"

  • Add, at the last, a great spoonful of butter, and a little flour wet with cold water, also pepper.

  • Stew together half an hour, with a little minced onion; then pepper and salt to taste, and stir in a great spoonful of butter with a very little sugar.

  • Drain and cover with a sauce prepared by heating a cup of milk, thickening it with a heaping teaspoonful of corn-starch, and stirring in a great spoonful of butter with pepper and salt to season it well.

  • When the macaroni has again come to a boil, season with pepper and salt and stir in a great spoonful of butter; lastly, two tablespoonfuls of dry, grated cheese.

  • Cut them into slices, season with pepper and salt, put into a covered saucepan with a great spoonful of butter and a very little water, and simmer gently until tender all through.

  • Wet with a great spoonful of oyster liquid, then, with a silver fork, arrange upon the toast as many oysters as the pans will hold without heaping them up.

  • Or you may make the base of chocolate blanc-mange, by stirring a great spoonful of grated sweet chocolate into the gelatine and boiling milk.

  • A great spoonful of rice should be washed and thrown in with the meat.

  • Next take a bowl full of strong yellow dye, and pour in a great spoonful or more of the blue composition.

  • Heap a great spoonful of the minced mutton on each piece.

  • Wet a tablespoonful of flour up with cold water, and when the liquor boils, stir it in with a great spoonful of butter.

  • When fine, add a great spoonful of butter, whipped in thoroughly, salting to taste as you go on.


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