If there is much fat upon the upper surface, cover with a paste of flour and water until it is nearly done.
When the rice is nearly done, turn off the water, add the milk and simmer—taking care it does not scorch—until the milk boils up well.
When the meat is nearly done, dredge lightly with flour, and baste once with melted butter.
Boil until the rice is nearly done, by which time it has absorbed most of the broth; then put into a porcelain baking dish and bake until brown.
Then add two spoonfuls of flour and simmer until the flour is slightly brown; add one pint of claret and one quart of boiling water, a bouquet garni, and bring to a boil; skim, cover and let slowly cook until nearly done.
Pour this over the cake when it is nearly done, and set back in oven for a few minutes until the custard is set.
Pour in sufficient water to cover the meat, and, when the rabbit is nearly done, drop in a few forcemeat balls, to which has been added the liver, finely chopped.
Simmer gently till the meat is nearly done, skim off all the fat, and then add the carrots and turnips, which should previously be cut in dice and fried in a little sugar to colour them.
When the lamb drops white gravy it is nearly done, and you may prepare for taking it up.
When it is nearly done, sprinkle it slightly, with a little salt.
When you suppose it to be nearly done, try it by sticking down to the backbone a thin-bladed knife.
When the soup is nearly done, stir in half a pint of Madeira.
When the meat is nearly done, move it close to the fire, dredge it with a very little flour, and baste it with butter.
If the potato is cooked in its "jacket," the skin, which does not in general burst open until the potato is nearly done, serves to keep this valuable element largely inside the potato while cooking.
If the stew is made of part cooked and part uncooked meat, the cooked meat should not be added until the stew is nearly done.
Sliced potato may be added if liked, when the meat is nearly done.
When the duck is nearly done, throw in the olives, and let all stew together about five minutes or more.
When it is nearly done, take it out, drain it, and lard it with large slips of bacon on the upper side, and small pieces on the under side.
When it is nearly done, take it up and with a sharp knife make incisions all over it, and stuff an oyster into every hole.
When the edges appear to leave the sides of the pan the cake is nearly done.
If when your pie is nearly done, the gravy should not be thick enough, add a few more pieces of butter rolled in flour.
When it is nearly done make a rich gravy with some butter rolled in flour, added to the water it was stewed in.
Put your cabbage on to boil, with a little salt in the water; when it is nearly done, pare your potatoes and put them in with the cabbage.
Boil all together till the chicken is nearly done; then take it out, put it into another stewpan, rub the ingredients through a tamis sieve, and add it to the fowl with a table spoonful of flour and water to thicken it.
Let the meat stew gently till nearly done, and then add slices of throat sweetbreads.
When it is nearly done, let it colour a little and glaize the top.
When the fish is nearly done, add a quart of vinegar.
When this is nearly done (which will be in about five minutes), add the whites, stiffly frothed and slightly salted, spreading them over the whole surface.
Beat these well together, and pour upon the fish when nearly done.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nearly done" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
