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Example sentences for "quite soft"

  • Warm it till the butter is quite soft, but not till it melts.

  • Put the sugar into a preserving-kettle; pour the juice upon it; cover it, and let it stand till all the sugar is quite soft, and can be easily mixed with the juice.

  • Cut up half a pound of fresh butter in a pint of West India molasses and warm them together slightly, till the butter is quite soft.

  • After taking the paste from the ice, it will still be quite soft, and have to be handled delicately and quickly.

  • Mix well together, and stir in enough cream to make it quite soft.

  • It must be quite soft, but it must not boil long enough to break.

  • When it is quite soft, drain it dry, and mash it in a cullender.

  • Stir it frequently, and when the apples are stewed quite soft, take them out with a skimmer that has holes in it, and put them into a tub.

  • Having simmered them till the bread is quite soft, and the currants well plumped, add melted butter or cream.

  • Put the peas to soak overnight, then cook with the onions until quite soft--pass through a sieve, add 1 gill of milk, bring to the boil.

  • Put the chestnuts in a saucepan with 2 teacups full of water, sugar to taste, the juice of 1 lemon, and simmer slowly until they are quite soft.

  • Now place in a baking tin, cover with breadcrumbs, place some small pieces of butter on top, and bake for another half hour until the marrow is quite soft and a nice rich brown.

  • When it is quite soft, strain it, pick out the pieces of ham, and, with the back of a large wooden spoon, mash the rice to a perfectly smooth paste.

  • Place them in a cool oven, with the jar well covered, and when the juice is thoroughly drawn and the apples are quite soft, strain them through a jelly-bag.

  • When the rice is quite soft, put it into teacups, or small round jars, and let it remain until cold; then turn the rice out on a deep glass dish, pour over a custard made by recipe No.

  • Set the pudding into an oven, and bake till a brown skin covers the surface, and the rice is quite soft, which you may ascertain by lifting a bit of the brown skin from the edge and trying the rice.

  • Then boil both together till they are quite soft.

  • Place them in a cool oven, with the jar well covered, and, when the juice is thoroughly drawn and the apples are quite soft, strain them through a jelly-bag.

  • When done enough they should be quite soft, but not broken.

  • Boil a quarter of a pound of rice till it is quite soft; then put it on the back of a sieve to drain.

  • Let it simmer till it is quite soft, then put in a knuckle of veal, or the scrag end of a leg of mutton, with two or three pounds of gravy beef.

  • Boil a quarter of a pound of rice in some milk till it is quite soft, put it into a bason, and let it stand till the next day.

  • Boil it till the onion is quite soft; then put some of the gravy of the meat to it, and the mince, but do not let it boil.

  • To make a plain trust for pies to be eaten hot, or for fruit puddings, cut some thin slices of beef suet, lay them in some flour, mix it with cold water, and roll it till it is quite soft.

  • Cut up the butter in the milk, and warm it till the butter is quite soft; then stir it together, and set it away to cool.

  • Then put them over the fire in a preserving kettle, and simmer them till they are quite soft.

  • Butter some cups or a mould, and when the rice is quite soft, drain it, and put it into them.

  • Italian paste; let the soup cook until this is quite soft, and serve with sippets of crisp toast, or Allinson plain rusks.

  • When the barley is quite soft, add the milk and parsley, boil the soup up, and serve.

  • Let all cook until the celery is quite soft, then drain the liquid from the vegetables.

  • When the spinach is quite soft, rub all through a sieve.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quite soft" 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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