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Example sentences for "pour over"

  • Shake the saucepan over the fire till the birds are lightly browned, pour over them as much good stock and sherry as will just cover them.

  • Lay the larks into a deep dish, pour over them a pint of good gravy, and bake in a moderate oven for a quarter of an hour.

  • Whilst the birds are still under-dressed, pour over them a little melted butter with which the yolk of an egg and a little cream has been mixed.

  • Thicken with flour to the consistency of gravy; pour over fish.

  • Pour over a scant dressing of melted butter.

  • The last thing, pour over a cup of boiling water.

  • Pour over them a pitcher of cold water, and then put them into a hot kettle.

  • Cover the slices of sweetbread with chaud-froid sauce and decorate with fine-chopped parsley or sifted yolk of egg; pour over a little melted aspic.

  • Peel the potatoes and cut them while hot into slices or cubes; pour over them as much beef broth as they will readily absorb and sprinkle with the salt and pepper, the oil and onion; mix lightly and set aside for some hours.

  • Pour a little aspic into a dish, and, when it sets, arrange the cutlets upon it a little distance apart; pour over each a few spoonfuls of aspic, and when set cover with more aspic.

  • To each half dozen eggs, pour over a half cup of cream.

  • Pour over a little melted butter, dust thickly with soft bread crumbs and bake in a quick oven until slightly brown.

  • Pour over it rum, kirsch, or brandy, ignite, and send to the table blazing.

  • Pour over it enough boiling water to moisten and let stand ten minutes.

  • Cover the fish with dots of butter, pour over half a cupful of cream or milk, and bake till brown.

  • Take from the oven, pour over a cupful of cream, garnish with parsley, and serve.

  • Make a bed of crisp tender lettuce leaves, lay on these slices of fresh solid tomatoes, and over these a layer of asparagus: pour over all a French or mayonnaise dressing.

  • Pour over them, at the end of that time, the boiling water, and stir until the gelatine is dissolved.

  • Put the egg in last and very carefully, boil one minute to cook it, and when the pudding is turned from the mould, pour over it.

  • Thicken the gravy with browned flour, boil up once, pour over all, and serve.

  • You should have a little brown gravy ready to pour over it.

  • Pour over it the boiling gravy, and add sippets of bread.

  • Pour over all a pint of warm milk, in which four beaten eggs have been mixed; cover the mould with a piece of linen, place it in a saucepan with a little boiling water, let it boil twenty minutes, and serve with pudding sauce.

  • When the veal is on the dish, pour over it half a pint of melted butter; if you have a little brown gravy by you, add that to the butter.

  • Pour over an unboiled custard of milk, two or three eggs, a few corns of pimento, and a very little ratifia, two hours at least before it is to be baked, and lade it over to soak the bread.

  • Lay thin slices of bread in a dish, pour over them a little of the milk, and keep them hot over a stove without burning.

  • Slice a penny white loaf as thin as possible, pour over it a pint of boiling cream, and let it stand two hours.

  • When done enough, pour over them a fine oyster sauce, and place them on the table as a side or corner dish.

  • Dish the turnips, season the gravy with salt and a few drops of lemon juice, pour over, and serve.

  • Gravy Beef and 1 gill of Water Scrape the meat to a pulp with a sharp knife, pour over it with water; cover over and stand away for an hour.

  • Have a layer of chopped mushrooms stewed in butter in the dish, lay the cutlets on it, pour over some d’Uxelles sauce, and garnish with truffles, cut in very thin circles.

  • In a mixing bowl combine remaining ingredients and pour over chicken.

  • Add lemon juice and capers carefully to avoid spatters; pour over schnitzels.

  • Mix water, lemon juice and pineapple juice; pour over layers.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pour over" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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