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Example sentences for "quite tender"

  • Boil it in the milk till thoroughly done and quite tender.

  • Boil these vegetables in the soup till they are all quite tender.

  • When it is quite tender, take it up, and drain and squeeze it well.

  • Boil the tripe the day before till it is quite tender, which it will not be in less than four or five hours.

  • Put them into a jar, stand this in a saucepan of boiling water, and let the apples stew until quite tender.

  • Put the fruit into large dry stone jars, sprinkling the sugar amongst it; cover the jars with saucers, place them in a rather cool oven, and bake the fruit until it is quite tender.

  • Let cook gently until the celery is quite tender, which will take about 1 hour; add the thickening and the milk.

  • Put the lid on the stewpan, simmer gently until the veal is quite tender, allowing half an hour to each pound and half an hour over.

  • Stew very gently from four to five hours, until the stew is quite tender.

  • Cover the jar close, and put it into a moderate oven, where it must simmer gently from three to four hours until the hare is quite tender.

  • Add a very little salt and pepper, and let it stew for twenty minutes, or till it is quite tender; turning it often, and pressing it down with a broad wooden spoon or flat ladle.

  • Boil it, steadily, half an hour, or till it is quite tender.

  • Well, you're a great little helper, Mildred, aren't you!

  • Add the onions, and pour the mixture into a well-buttered baking dish.

  • Now let me tell you how I think you should go about it.

  • Having boiled the tripe in milk and water, for four or five hours till it is quite tender, gut it up into small pieces.

  • Put it into a pot of boiling water with a handful of salt, and boil it till the stalk is quite tender.

  • Boil the tripe the day before, till it is quite tender, which it will not be in less than four or five hours.

  • When the meat is quite tender, and falls from the bones, strain the soup into another pot, and add to it a spoonful of mushroom catchup, and two spoonfuls of butter rubbed in flour.

  • Stew it till it is quite tender; then take out the fat bones, and remove all the fat from the soup.

  • Boil it quite tender, put in some stewed celery, and season it with pepper.

  • Simmer it till it is quite tender, strain it from the broth, and put the rice on a sieve before the fire.

  • Bind it tight together with a strong cloth and coarse tape, boil it quite tender, and hang it up in the cloth till cold.

  • Let all stew together very gently, till it is quite tender.

  • Boil a quarter of a pound of maccaroni till it is quite tender; lay it on a sieve to drain; then put it into a tossing-pan with about a gill of cream and a piece of butter rolled in flour.

  • Dissolve lactate of barium in water, precipitate the barium with dilute sulphuric acid, carefully avoiding excess, and gently evaporate to the consistence of a syrup, or until it acquires the density 1.

  • Of late, however, it has been partly superseded by sulphurous acid, carbolic acid, &c.

  • When head is quite tender (it will take about four hours), lift it out carefully and place between 2 dishes to press until quite cold.

  • The gherkins, chutney and salt must now be added; also sauce or gravy; and stewpan must be set over very slow fire about 1 hour; by that time meat should be quite tender.

  • Just cover it with water, skim well when it boils, and let it gently simmer till the meat is quite tender.

  • Now add it to the stock boiling, and allow it to stew till it is quite tender; season to taste.

  • Take the vermicelli, add it to a little of the stock, and set it on the fire, till it is quite tender.

  • Moisten with half a pint of stock and a gill of claret.


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