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Example sentences for "pour boiling water over"

  • Pour boiling water over, and let it stand fifteen minutes.

  • Flour and sprinkle with salt and pepper; pour boiling water over it, and stew three-quarters of an hour.

  • Sprinkle salt, and let it stand overnight; next morning, pour boiling water over, and squeeze dry.

  • Pour boiling water over them, and let them remain near the fire, five minutes.

  • If the fish is salt, pour boiling water over it, soak it several hours; butter and pepper, and broil; serve in the same way as the fresh.

  • Pour boiling water over them so as to remove the skins readily.

  • Pour boiling water over it in the morning; when the water cools, plunge it into ice water for five minutes, wipe dry, and broil under a gas flame.

  • In the morning scrub it well, cover with slices of onion, pour boiling water over, and let it soak till the water is cool.

  • Pour boiling water over half a cupful of raisins and when they have swelled, drain and add to the gravy.

  • Pour boiling water over, drain on a fine sieve, and add six or seven well-beaten eggs.

  • Boil and mash two white potatoes; add two teaspoonfuls of brown sugar; pour boiling water over these, enough to soften them.

  • Pour boiling water over a dozen sound ripe tomatoes; let them remain for a few moments; then peel off the skins, slice them and put them over the fire in a well-lined tin or granite-ware saucepan.

  • Break the bark into bits, pour boiling water over it, cover and let it infuse until cold.

  • Heat a spoon of butter in a spider, add a spoon of flour, stir briskly, but do not let it get black; pour boiling water over it, add salt and caraway seeds.

  • Add flour to melted butter in saucepan, pour boiling water over, stirring, add tomatoes and salt.

  • Pour boiling water over to half cover the apples (more or less according to the juiciness of the apples), cover kettle and set over hot fire.

  • Pour boiling water over a half cup of raisins, and let them stand until swelled.

  • Pour boiling water over it, and steep, not boil, for fifteen or twenty minutes.

  • Pour boiling water over bits of slippery elm bark or slippery elm powder, cool, and strain, if desired, a little lemon juice and sugar may be added to flavor.

  • Pour boiling water over Pecans (nuts), allow to stand several hours.

  • Should fat removed from top of stock pot have a flavor of vegetables, pour boiling water over, strain and stand aside to cool; then remove the clean cake of fat on top of the water and add to bowl of drippings.

  • Lay the ducks in the dripping-pan; pour boiling water over them, and roast, basting often, until tender and brown.

  • Lay it in the dripping-pan; pour boiling water over it, and roast about ten minutes to the pound, after the cooking actually commences.

  • Pour boiling water over them to loosen the skins.


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