The leeks are stewed and cut in slices, and served in some of the liquor in which they are boiled, with toast cut in strips, something like onion porridge.
When the leeks have boiled in the milk till they are quite tender, pour the soup over the crusts placed at the bottom of the soup-tureen.
If possible add leeks to this soup instead of onion, and just before serving the soup throw in a brimming dessertspoonful of chopped blanched parsley to every quart of soup.
Take a white cabbage and slice it up, and throw it into some stock or water, with some leeks and slices of turnip.
Boil the leeks for five minutes, drain them off, and throw away the first water, and then stew them gently in some fresh water.
The water in which leeks have been boiled is somewhat rank and bitter, and, as the leeks are like tubes, in order to drain them perfectly you must turn them upside down.
Leeks must be trimmed down to where the green part meets the white on the one side, and the root, where the strings are, cut off on the other.
We may here mention, before leaving the subject of ingredients, that leeks and garlic are a substitute for onion, and can also be used in conjunction with it.
Ay, leeks is good; hold you, there is a groat to heal your pate.
When you take occasions to see leeks hereafter, I pray you, mock at 'em; that is all.
Ay, leeks is good: hold you, there is a groat to heal your pate.
Sow also Early Horn carrot; Early Purple-top Munich turnip; onions for a full crop in light soils, with a few leeks and some parsley.
Plant full crops of broccoli, Brussels sprouts, savoys, kales, leeks and early celery, with successional crops of cabbage and cauliflower.
And, indeed, the next day he sees cabbages and leeks such as he had never seen before.
He goes to the garden, and pulls up the fine cabbages, and the beautiful leeks as well.
But as an ornamental tree it does not seem to have been much valued, though in the next century Evelyn is loud in the praises of this "incomparable tree," and admired it both for its beauty and its use.
Should the leeks happen to be old and strong, it would be better to blanch them five minutes in a gallon of boiling water previously to putting them with the stock.
I have used the green tops of leeks and the leaf of celery as well as the stem, and found, that for stewing they are preferable to the white part for flavour.
Well-grown leeks have a very agreeable and not very strong onion flavor.
When fine leeks are desired, it can hardly be made too rich.
Early leeks may be obtained by sowing the seeds in a hot-bed in February or March, and transplanting to the open ground in June or July.
In October, the leeks will be suitable for use; and, until the closing-up of the ground, may be drawn from time to time as required for the table.
All, with the exception of leeksand potatoes, are given level culture.
When you take occasions to see leeks hereafter, I pray you mock at 'em; that is all.
If the raw chicken is quartered, fried in the oil, and then braised in the broth with a dash of vinegar, the bunch of leeks and parsley, seasoned with pepper and a little salt, we have a dish gastronomically correct.
They to whom manna is sweet as angel's food find that they have lost their relish for the strong-smelling and rank-flavoured Egyptian leeks and garlic.
IX-153] Or, cover the leeks with young cabbage leaves; cook them under the hot embers, and season afterwards as above.
Radishes and leeks are the only vegetables regularly and daily used in Arab cookery; they are very small, and the common people eat them raw with bread.
Near the causeway we saw a small field, irrigated by means of a brackish well, where a few miserable Bedouins raised onions and leeks for the market at Mekka.
Bring forth the breeks; as sure as leeks is leeks You'll find the proof upon the breeks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leeks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
