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Example sentences for "salted water"

  • Meanwhile boil as many potatoes as are required in salted water.

  • Cut two carrots and one turnip into shapes with a vegetable scoop, simmer for twenty minutes in salted water, drain and place in a quart of the water in which the potatoes (in this same menu) were boiled.

  • Parboil a medium sized cauliflower in salted water, change the water and boil till done.

  • Wash the rice and blanch it by letting it come to a boil and cook a few minutes in salted water.

  • Boil the rice until it is about half done in salted water.

  • Boil these ravioli in salted water, being careful not to break them open.

  • The spaghetti are to be boiled until tender in salted water, taking care to remove them when tender, and not cooked until they lose form.

  • The carrots turnips and cabbage may also be cooked together in salted water.

  • Break the macaroni into inch lengths and boil in salted water thirty to thirty-five minutes.

  • Cut the celery into half-inch lengths and cook in boiling, salted water.

  • Cook the macaroni in salted water, drain, and chop fine; have the eggs boiled hard and chopped fine, and the onions grated.

  • Mix thoroughly, season with salt and pepper, and pour into two quarts of salted water at a galloping boil.

  • PUREE OF GREEN PEAS Boil four cupfuls of green peas in salted water with an onion, a small bunch of parsley, and two sprigs of mint.

  • Add a pinch of ground mace, and one-quarter of a pound of broken vermicelli, which has been cooked until tender in salted water.

  • Boil for three-quarters of an hour in salted water, drain, and take off the cloth.

  • Pare and boil till tender in salted water.

  • Boil in salted water, or stock, until soft.

  • To 3 pints of bubbling, salted water, add 1 pint of the best vermicelli; boil briskly ten minutes, drain off all the water and serve hot with butter and cream.

  • Boil six heads of lettuce in salted water.

  • Boil a peck of well-washed spinach in salted water.

  • Wash and peel three dozen small French carrots, and boil in two quarts of salted water.

  • Boil in salted water, lettuce or any other kind of green salad.

  • Wash, and boil twenty minutes in salted water.

  • Boil the roe fifteen minutes in salted water; then drain and mash.

  • Cut the tops from one bunch of the asparagus and cook them twenty minutes in salted water to cover.

  • The potato balls are cut from the raw potatoes with a vegetable scoop, and boiled ten minutes in salted water.

  • After cooking vegetables until tender in salted water, they should be drained and served with a cream sauce poured over.

  • Drop the small triangular pies into boiling, salted water a few minutes, or until they rise to top; then skim out and brown them in a pan containing a tablespoonful each of butter and lard.

  • Having cleaned your fish, cut into pieces of a convenient size to go into the fish-kettle, and boil in salted water as for the table.

  • Put into the kettle with cold salted water enough to cover it.

  • Skin the steaks carefully and lay in salted water (cold) for an hour, to remove the oily taste, so offensive to most palates.

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  • I think I am correct, Marchesa, in assuming that Italy, which has showered so many boons upon us, gave us also the taste for ices.

  • Then pour a few drops of oil on each shell, put them on the gridiron on an open fire, grill for a few minutes, and add a little lemon juice before serving.

  • The pinocchi which Italians use instead of almonds can be bought in London when in season.

  • Take off the outside leaves of half a pound of Brussels sprouts, wash and boil them in salted water.

  • Then add some peas which have been cooked in salted water, three tablespoonsful of Bechamel sauce (No.

  • Roll some forcemeat of veal or fowl in flour, cut it into small pieces about the size of a cork, boil them in salted water, let them get cold and cut them into circular pieces.

  • Boil the vegetable (whatever it is) in salted water, fast, just till they are tender.

  • First, thoroughly wash it in salted water.

  • The fresh salmon is to be boiled in salted water.

  • Salted water is intensely cold, you know, and it would restore the freshness of the leaves of lettuce, even if they were wilted, unless they were really on the verge of decay.

  • Put the little squares of paste and meat into the boiling salted water a few at a time, and boil for ten minutes.

  • Boil two quarts of salted water, and put the ribbons into it, and cook for ten minutes, then drain.

  • Leave these to one side, and put two quarts of salted water on to boil.

  • Next morning set where they will simmer slowly for two hours in salted water enough to cover.

  • Set upright in a deep kettle and pour over boiling salted water enough to reach nearly to the tips, but do not cover.

  • Or the asparagus can be first cut in small lengths, boiled until tender in salted water, then drained, laid on hot toast and covered with cream sauce.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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