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Example sentences for "little butter and flour"

  • They thicken a pint of milk with a little butter and flour, and then call it melted butter, and, as a rule, send to table enough for twenty persons when only two or three are dining.

  • Thicken the sauce with a little butter and flour, or white roux, and season with pepper and salt.

  • Put all this into a stew-pan with a little butter sauce, or a little water can be added and then thickened with a little butter and flour.

  • Let it boil quickly half an hour; mix a little butter and flour, and boil in the soup.

  • When it is quite tender take your stewpan, and brown a little butter and flour, enough to thicken the gravy, which you must put through a colander, first adding sliced carrots and turnips, previously boiled in another pot.

  • If not thick enough, put in a little butter and flour.

  • Thicken as much gravy as required, with a little butter and flour; add spices and ketchup in the above proportion, give one boil, pour some of it over the meat, and the remainder send in a tureen.

  • Thicken with a little butter and flour, kneaded together on a plate, and the gravy will be ready for use.

  • Cover the saucepan close, and let it simmer; then add a little butter and flour, and boil with the above.

  • Then beat up half the brains, put it to the rest with a little butter and flour, and simmer the whole together.

  • Drain the butter from it, simmer the flesh in a good well-seasoned gravy, thickened with a little butter and flour, adding the juice of half a lemon.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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