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Example sentences for "mashing"

Lexicographically close words:
mashed; masheen; masher; mashes; mashie; masi; masin; mask; maske; masked
  1. Sometimes, do what we could, we couldn't keep her from falling over, and she come mighty near mashing us every time.

  2. Put the quinces into the preserve-kettle when this water is almost cold, pour it over them and boil, stirring and mashing the fruit with a wooden spoon as it becomes soft.

  3. If you cannot procure the rice-flour, boil one cup of whole rice to a thin paste, mashing and beating it smooth.

  4. When there is a shortage of yucca, they grind it into flour by mashing it between stones; the bread made from this is coarser.

  5. They cut the yucca, which is very juicy, into pieces, mashing and kneading it and then baking it in the form of cakes.

  6. It can be made sooner by blanching and mashing the greens, adding any good liquor that a joint has been boiled in, and then further thicken with bread or pounded biscuit.

  7. A casserole of potatoes, which is often used for ragoƻts instead of rice, is made by mashing potatoes rather thickly, placing them on a dish, and making an opening in the centre.

  8. Let them remain for a few hours, when break them up with the hand; put them in a nice cool place for 3 days, occasionally stirring and mashing them well, to extract from them as much juice as possible.

  9. It derives its name from having been originally used by the Indians as a remedy for the poison of their arrows, by mashing and applying it to the wound.

  10. When no more eggs are to be found, the mashing process begins.

  11. The manner of fishing is to close up the mouth of an inlet of the river with a network made of reeds; and then, mashing the barbasco-root to a pulp, throw it into the water.

  12. Put all in jelly-pan, including the water drained from the seeds, and let boil gently, for about 2 hours, mashing frequently with a wooden spoon.

  13. Simmer for an hour or longer, till all the goodness is drawn out, mashing freely with a wooden spoon.

  14. I once overheard a clergyman, who had taken his seat at a tea-table in a Surrey garden, sharply call to order some boys of his party who were striking wildly at wasps and mashing them with any instrument that was handy.

  15. When the process of mashing has been properly conducted, the wort, after leaving the cooler, should not be turned blue by tincture of iodine, or by iodide of potassium mixed with a few drops of nitric acid.

  16. During the process of mashing a peculiar principle contained in the malt, called diastase, reacts upon the starch with which it is associated, and converts it into grape-sugar.

  17. In the process of mashing about 4/7ths of this quantity of saccharine (or 48 lbs.

  18. Agitation is then again had recourse to, and the transparent 'spent wash' of a preceding mashing is added, followed by as much cold water as will reduce the temperature of the whole to about 85 deg.

  19. In some cases the worts of the first and second mashes only are used for strong beer; that of the third mashing being kept for table beer, or as liquor to mash a fresh quantity of malt.

  20. Proceed as for peaches in every particular, except that you press the juice of the currants and berries through a towel instead of mashing them through a sieve, and that you use the syrup at 44 deg.

  21. While mashing them through the colander, wet them with some of the water in which they have boiled, else it would be difficult and long.

  22. It is understood by mashing gently, to mash so that all the liquid part shall pass through the colander, and the seeds and spices shall be retained in it and thrown away.

  23. When the cabbage is done, turn it into a colander, cut it rather fine with a spoon, press gently on it to get the water out as much as possible without mashing it through the colander, and it is ready to be used.

  24. After mashing the berries intended for wine, put them on top the straw, and let the juice drain through it and run through the hole at the side of the tub or barrel into the vessel set beneath to catch it.

  25. Add the yeast, butter and eggs, after mashing the potato in the flour.

  26. Wash and pick the berries, boil with a little water, mashing and scraping from the bottom as they simmer.

  27. A cheerful painting to adorn the walls back of the Speaker's desk, would be a study by some great artist, representing Sampson mashing the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass.

  28. It makes them look like a chromo of Powhattan mashing the eternal soul out of John Smith with a Bologna sausage.

  29. What's the yarn about your mashing a Miss Haverley up there?

  30. Heatherlegh's comment would have been a short laugh and a remark that I had been "mashing a brain- eye-and-stomach chimera.

  31. To mash them, we place the mill above one of the fermenting vats, mashing them as quick as they are carried or hauled to the press-house.

  32. Let the juice run through of itself, without any mashing or squeezing.

  33. While stewing, stir them up frequently from the bottom, mashing them with the back of the spoon against the sides of the pipkin.

  34. Then early in the morning, put the tomatas into a large porcelain, kettle, and boil it slowly and steadily till ten at night, frequently mashing and stirring the tomatas.

  35. Keep them four days in the salt and water, stirring and mashing them every day.

  36. When no more scum rises, put in the quinces, cover them closely, and boil them all day over a slow fire, stirring them and mashing them down with a spoon till they are a thick smooth paste.

  37. Its sweetness may be modified by mashing with a few potatoes.

  38. Extract the juice by mashing the fruit and slowly heating in the inner cup of a double boiler, till the fruit is well scalded; too long heating will injure its color.

  39. Make a jam by mashing well some fresh raspberries or blueberries and sweetening to taste.

  40. I am freezing, and these cold clods are mashing me.

  41. Certainly we will," said the big clod that the seed had accused of mashing her.

  42. Take out the meat and pass the soup through a colander, mashing and extracting as much of the puree as possible, passing the stock through it two or three times.

  43. Then take two ounces of bitter almonds; peel and mash these while wet; add one gill of cold water and one ounce of powdered sugar, mashing the whole together.

  44. It derives its name from having been originally used by the Indians, as a remedy for the poison of their arrows, by mashing and applying it to the wound.

  45. By mashing them this inconvenience is removed.

  46. This occurs during the germination and kiln-drying of grain in the operation of malting, and in the mashing of malt in brewing.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mashing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abrasion; attrition; beating; crumbling; disintegration; grating; grinding; mashing; pounding; smashing