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Example sentences for "silver spoon"

  • Skim it well, and stir it frequently with a wooden or silver spoon.

  • Then strain them through a fine sieve, pressing them with the back of a silver spoon.

  • Stir them for the same reason, with a silver spoon.

  • In making this jelly, use only a silver spoon, and carefully observe all the above precautions, that it may be transparent and delicate.

  • Peel them with a silver spoon (a knife would injure their color), and let them lay in a salt brine for two days.

  • Cook in a double boiler until the mixture coats a silver spoon yellow.

  • Cook over the lower part of the boiler until thick enough to coat a silver spoon.

  • Cook in a double boiler until thick enough to coat a silver spoon.

  • Mix with the chopped peaches sufficient powdered loaf-sugar to make them very sweet, and then mash them to a smooth jam with a silver spoon.

  • Stir them with a silver spoon, and keep on the lid of the pan closely; unless when you are stirring.

  • Lay them on a plate, and mash and press them with the back of a silver spoon, till you have extracted as much of their red juice as you want.

  • Mash the berries as much as possible with a silver spoon, and boil just seven minutes.

  • Break and mash the apples with a silver spoon, pour over them a pint of boiling water; cover and let stand until cold; then strain and serve.

  • Put the whole together, and beat it full half an hour with a silver spoon.

  • When done enough to bear it, flatten them with a silver spoon; and when done through, put them on a dish.

  • Cut off the black tops, and roast the fruit before the fire, till it is soft enough to pulp with a silver spoon through a sieve into a china bason.

  • Darnley, though showy in appearance, was in reality a fool, and it might be said that instead of having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was in himself the embodiment of that auspicious article.

  • Put a teaspoonful of vanilla into the chocolate after taking from the fire, and pour the hot chocolate very slowly upon the eggs, stirring constantly with a silver spoon or the wooden stick which comes for the purpose.

  • Pour over four cupfuls of boiling water, and as it rises and begins to boil, stir it with a silver spoon.

  • Serve in slices from a platter or on individual plates, removing the rind before serving, if desired; or cut the melon in half, slice off the lower end so that it may stand firmly, and serve the pulp from the shell with a silver spoon.

  • Break them up with the back of a silver spoon, or in a Wedgewood mortar, but not so fine as to crush the eggs.

  • Chop the fish fine, then rub it in a Wedgewood mortar, or in a bowl with the back of a silver spoon, adding the butter until it is a smooth paste.

  • Rub the coral to a smooth paste with the back of a silver spoon.

  • When he came to the doll in the grass he wanted her to sit with him on his horse; but no, that she wouldn't; she said she would sit and drive in a silver spoon, and she had two small white horses which would draw her.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    against thee; betook ourselves; but such; feet below the surface; great deal; grist mill; him who; making treaties; reference should; regular system; silver bell; silver certificates; silver coin; silver coinage; silver coins; silver dish; silver dollars; silver fork; silver gilt; silver knife; silver ores; silver penny; silver ring; silver wire; silvery white; whose name