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Example sentences for "hair sieve"

  • When they are done, lay them on brown paper or a hair sieve, to drain off all fat; then serve on a napkin.

  • If for clear soups, strain again through a hair sieve, or fold a clean towel in a colander set over an earthen bowl, or any dish large enough to hold the stock.

  • The preferred seasonings are one tablespoonful of Madeira or sherry, a blade of mace, one small onion, and a little cayenne pepper; strain through a hair sieve; pour a little over the ducks and serve the remainder in a boat.

  • They are pulverized and mixed in the usual manner, and passed three times through a hair sieve.

  • Pasteboard is made in the following way: A paste of flour is first prepared with hot water, and passed through a hair sieve, to separate the lumps.

  • In whatever manner the drying is performed, there is always more or less dust formed, which, to make the grain of one uniform appearance, must be separated by a hair sieve.

  • Then let it get cold, pass through a hair sieve, and add two eggs, a tablespoonful of grated Parmesan, and very little nutmeg.

  • Pass the liquor through a hair sieve, and, if necessary, add some stock; reduce and clarify it.

  • Boil two or three big potatoes, and pass them through a hair sieve, mix in two tablespoonsful of flour, an egg beaten up, and enough milk to form a rather firm paste; stir until it is quite smooth.

  • The stone must be powdered and sifted through a muslin or hair sieve: mix with it as much soft soap as will bring it to the stiffness of putty: to about half-a-pound of this, add two ozs.

  • Empty the contents of the frying-pan on a hair sieve, and rub the tomatoes through.

  • When fried, rub them lightly through a hair sieve.

  • Rub them quickly through a hair sieve, and put the sauce in a hot tureen.

  • When tender, strain it from the liquor and rub it through a hair sieve.

  • Scrape and cut the carrots thin, strain the soup on them, and stew them till soft enough to pulp through a hair sieve or coarse cloth; then boil the pulp with the soup, which should be of the consistency of pea-soup.

  • Now beat the yolks of the eggs well, mix with the cream (previously boiled), and strain through a hair sieve.

  • The proportion is three pounds of bran for every twenty-eight pounds of flour, to be boiled for an hour, and then strained through a hair sieve.

  • Next boil the soup for two or three minutes; rub it through a tammy or hair sieve, with a wooden spoon, and add as much broth as will make it a proper thickness, i.

  • The potato pulp must be now elutriated upon a fine wire or hair sieve, which is set upon a frame in the mouth of a large vat, while water is made to flow upon it from a spout with many jets.

  • Scrape and cut the carrots thin, strain the soup on them, and stew them till soft enough to pulp through a hair sieve or coarse cloth; then boil the pulp with the soup, which should be of the consistency of pea soup.

  • Press the pulpy fruits which are ripe and fresh through a hair sieve, without boiling them.

  • Then take your skimmer, and put them on the bottom of a hair sieve, so let them drain till they are cold; then take them off, and put them into a basin, and beat them with two or three spoonfuls of Cream and Sugar.

  • The crumbs to be rubbed through a hair sieve.

  • Strain it through a hair sieve or piece of muslin.

  • Grate some white potatoes into cold water, stir it well, and strain it through a hair sieve.

  • Rub the whole through a hair sieve in order to avoid having any pips in the sauce.

  • They can now be strained through a hair sieve, but, still better, they can be squeezed dry in a tamis cloth.

  • It will be found best to rub the raspberries through a hair sieve, as the addition of the pulp very much improves the flavour of the jelly.

  • To make apple jam, weigh the apple pulp after the juice has been drawn from it, rub it through a hair sieve, and allow one pound of sugar to one pint of pulp, and the grated rind of a lemon to three pints of pulp.

  • Put the green kern on to boil in water slightly salted, as it boils down keep adding soup stock from the kettle of soup on the stove, always straining through a hair sieve, until all has been used.

  • Take the milch and rub it through a hair sieve, the more of them you have the better for the sauce; stir in a spoon of brown sugar and vinegar and pour it over the herring.

  • Peel and cut the vegetables into slices and boil them in stock until tender, then rub through a hair sieve.

  • Mix the fruit and a large tablespoonful of raspberry jam with the syrup, and rub it through a hair sieve.

  • Peel four or five oranges, carefully take out the divisions which put on a hair sieve in a cool place to drain all night.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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