Then there is the old sieve and string and brick trap, about which no boy needs to be told.
A fine sieve is generally used by trappers to sift dirt over the trap when set, but you can dispense with this if you wear gloves.
To do this frosting by acid nicely, make a sieve by tacking and gluing four pieces of thin wood together, to make a rectangular box without a bottom.
We hold the sieve containing the mastic over the cock and, gently tapping the box A with a piece of wood like a medium-sized file handle, shake down a little snowstorm of mastic dust over the face of the cock C.
If I give the sieve a jolt then the water is driven to the other side, and in a moment it has all escaped.
When melted and clear like water, dip the sieve in, and when all is hot quickly take it out and knock it once or twice on the table to shake the paraffin out of the holes.
But you see if you only manage the sieve properly, this is not quite so absurd as people generally suppose.
I have a small sieve made of wire gauze sufficiently coarse to allow a common pin to be put through any of the holes.
Strain through a linen or fine sieve that will prevent the seed from getting through.
Then beat three pints rich cream to a froth, and put the froth on a sieve to drain the milk from it.
Gather the sassafras leaves green, and dry in the shade, as sage; when thoroughly dry, rub through a sieve and bottle and cork tightly.
Rub through a sieve into a deep dish, letting it fall in a mound.
Potato Cream Boil six medium-sized, mealy potatoes and when soft press them through a sieve until light and floury.
Simmer for fifteen minutes, then rub through a sieve and put back in the pan with one-half pint of cream and one ounce of butter.
Then rub it through a sieve and add one quart of veal stock, salt, cayenne, and three heads of celery (the white stalks only) which have been previously grated.
Spread small thin rounds of toast with the mixture, cover with white of hard boiled egg rubbed through a sieve and place an olive in the center of each.
Press through a fine sieve into the cooking pot, then add one quart of white stock.
Ike put him in a half-sieve basket with some hay, and fixed him in with some sticks same as we cover fruit, and he curled up and went to sleep till Ike brought him in to me in the yard.
Force ripe bananas through a sieve to make the banana purée.
The flour sieve is an absolute necessity, because the flour for pastry must be made as light as possible by sifting.
Soak and stew dried apricots and force these through a sieve to make apricot purée.
Put them through a sieve or a colander and add the sugar, cinnamon, and lemon juice to the pulp.
The mixture should be strained through a sieve of twenty meshes to the inch in order to remove the coarse particles of lime, but all the sulphur should be worked through the strainer.
The sulphur, which should first be worked through a sieve to break up the lumps, may then be added, and, finally, enough water to slake the lime into a paste.
The best soil for covering small seeds is made by rubbing dry moss and leaf-mold through a sieve together.
It should be placed in a sieve and heated by the steam arising from boiling water; the sieve so placed in the saucepan as to be two or three inches above the fluid.
The Martelli traced their origin through two lines of ancestry: to the Picciandoni of Pisa in the thirteenth century, and to the Stabbielli of the Val di Sieve in the fourteenth.
Still, he added to the family possessions by acquiring the lay-patronage of the churches of San Pietro a Sieve and San Bartolommeo di Petrone.
Then a voice came by her and said, "Take yellow clay and moss, and bind them together, and plaster the sieve so that it will hold.
And they said to her, "Take a sieve and bring water in it.
You will not get any makings of a cake from me," said the miller, "till you bring me the full of that sieve of water from the river over there.
And she took the sieveand went to the well; but the water poured from it, and she could fetch none for the cake, and she sat down by the well and wept.
The common sievehas neither a cover nor a receiver, and may be either formed of horse hair, or of brass or copper wire.
In the sieve is usually placed a contrivance to break the masses, and to cause the powder to pass through in grains.
With the exception of this process, it is made in the same manner, using, however, a finer sieve in granulating it.
A receiver, with a top, is the kind of sieve to be preferred.
It is then passed through a sieve made with round holes, and then put into a drum, and submitted for a half hour, to a rotary motion.
To quirl the yolks run them through the sieve of a patent potato masher.
When perfectly soft, drain in colander, press out all of the water, rub the squash through a sieve and return it to the saucepan.
Crumbs sifted through a coarse sieve are an improvement.
Bruise half a dozen cloves of garlic, rub them through a fine sieve with a wooden spoon; mix this pulp with butter and beat thoroughly, put in a wide mouthed bottle and keep for further use.
Strain through a cloth or fine sieve into a porcelain stewpan with a gill of cream.
Strain through a coarsesieve into a gallon of water and let the liquid settle.
Ripe cucumbers can be treated quite similarly unless the seeds are tough, if they are, mash the cucumbers through a sieve and serve with butter, pepper and salt.
Remove the cobs, put in the corn and boil twenty minutes, then rub the corn through a sieve and add salt and pepper to taste.
Simmer over the fire till it coats the spoon, strain again through a cloth or fine sieve into a basin, and set till the sauce is cold.
Mash the rest through a sieve using the water in which it was boiled to press it through.
Soak a pint of beans over night, cook the next morning until perfectly soft, strain through a sieve and season with one teaspoonful of salt and a saltspoonful of pepper.
Right across our line of route and about 500 yards from our camp the surface was so broken up that it was more like a sieve than anything else.
It was said to be in bad repair, to leak like a sieve -- in fact, to be altogether rotten.
The sieve rolled down, swayed from side to side, and settled close to my head, in the depression where I was conscientiously emulating an ostrich.
I went back to my dugout, and found Art busily toasting some bread over the sieve that I had commandeered the day before.
Then strain the liquor through a finesieve and return it to the kettle.
Put it in a sieve and let hot water run over it until it is perfectly white.
If the marmalade is made from berries the fruit should be rubbed through a sieveto remove the seeds.
Let this boil a few minutes, add a little vinegar and sugar; strain this sauce through a wire sieve and add a few capers and a wineglass of white wine and let it boil up once again and thicken with the yolk of one egg.
Stone two pounds of cherries and lay them on a sieve with a dish underneath to catch the juice.
Then strain, through a fine hair sieve and let it stand ten or twelve hours.
Take half a pound of cheese, rub it through a coarse sieve or colander, add salt, the yolks of two eggs and one whole egg, sweeten to taste.
Strain through a fine sieve and serve in cups or soup plates and sprinkle the top with maple sugar.
When pineapples are used, slice them crosswise and dry them on a sieve or in the open air; oranges should be separated into sections and dried like pineapple.
The rags were piled in an iron sieve before her; they were mostly the kind called "Blue Egyptians," cotton cloth dyed with indigo, which had come far across the sea from Egypt.
She laid it carefully aside, and went on with her sorting, working so quickly that in a few moments the sieve was empty, and the basket piled with good cotton rags, ready for the cutting-machine.
Sieve my lady's oatmeal, Grind my lady's flour; Put it in a chestnut, Let it stand an hour.
Oratiello had his father buried by charity; and then took thesieve and went riddling here, there, and everywhere to gain a livelihood; and the more he riddled, the more he earned.
