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Example sentences for "skillet"

Lexicographically close words:
skilfullest; skilfully; skilfulness; skill; skilled; skillets; skillful; skillfull; skillfully; skillings
  1. Knead soft, cook in skillet well filled with lard just to the boiling point; place in dripping pan, so that they may not get soggy with the grease while cooling off.

  2. Put an iron skillet or frying pan on the fire; let it get almost red hot.

  3. His face look lak a skillet lid, His years lak two big kites.

  4. Cut a leg of pork to the shape of a Westphalia ham; salt it, and set it on the fire in a skillet till dry, and put to it two ounces of saltpetre finely beaten.

  5. Set it on the fire again, and let it stand awhile; then take a ladle, and raise it up gently from the bottom of the skillet you make it in, and break it as little as you can, and do so till you see that it is thick enough.

  6. Now chop two ounces of salt pork or fat bacon very fine and place in a skillet and cook until nicely browned.

  7. Place the bacon and one and one-half cups of crab meat and two tablespoons of grated onion in a hot skillet and cook until nicely browned.

  8. The mother washed the skillet and few utensils used about the meal, smoking her pipe the while.

  9. The pump-man whipped the skillet from him, whirled him about, ran him into his galley, and closed and bolted the door behind him.

  10. The cook was a good-sized man, and he held a skillet in his hand, but he was taken by surprise.

  11. Cler out from here, you hussy, er I'll take a skillet to ye!

  12. They had taken the cooking utensils down to the river edge to wash them, and Lucetta scoured for a silent half minute on the skillet before she picked the one comforting grain of assurance out of the midnight adventure.

  13. For the bread, Domestic Science wrestled heroically with a lack of appliances; the batter had to be stirred in the tiny skillet with water taken from the lake.

  14. The crown-prince moved, however; as soon as he had finished the plate of sausages he went to the principal dish, the skillet containing the buttered eggs.

  15. She opened the door and put the hot lid of the skillet on it to cool.

  16. Mama was a house girl, Aunt Mary cooked and my oldest sister put fire on the skillet and oven lids.

  17. She would whoop us for saying she ought to put the hot skillet on her.

  18. Grandpa left and grandmama put the skillet of meat in the bed with the baby and threw a big roll of cotton in the fire.

  19. We'd tell grandmama she ought to put the skillet on mama.

  20. Then we had another oven, a smaller affair of the skillet order, in which Bill would set to cooking a corn meal cake.

  21. Watered by the East Fork, and Crooked creek, tributaries of Kaskaskia river, on its western, and heads of Skillet Fork of Little Wabash on its eastern side.

  22. The Little Wabash, with its tributaries, Elm river, and Skillet Fork, are its streams.

  23. Put them in a skillet of hot lard; fry a delicate brown.

  24. Put them into a pipkin or skillet of boiling milk or cream, put to them two or three sprigs of mint, and salt; being fine and tender boil'd, thick them with a little milk and flour.

  25. He rummaged on a shelf, found an iron skillet containing some broth and set it close to the blazing wood.

  26. This done, he took the skillet from the fire-place and with a spoon forced a little of the hot liquid, drop by drop, between the clenched teeth.

  27. They would have taken three hours, which was easily two and a half hours too long, but she bent over the skillet to sniff the aroma of frying bacon and lifted the top from the kettle a dozen times just to watch the potatoes bubbling.

  28. Illustration] She returned to the camp, looked at the skillet and knife Pete had used, and conjured up fond memories of the glorious feast they'd enjoyed last night.

  29. A little wisp of black smoke curled up from the skillet in which she was cooking bacon.

  30. Chip some beef very thin, pour hot water on it, and let it stand a minute or two, then drain it off, and stew it in a skillet with a little cream and butter.

  31. A large fowl will roast in an hour, and a small one in half an hour; boil the livers and gizzards in a skillet with a pint of water; thicken and season for gravy.

  32. Cut it up and put it to boil in a covered skillet with a quart of water; when it has boiled down to a pint, take it up, and put in a little salt and slice of toasted bread.

  33. Old Sally was tossing and shaking the frying salt pork in the skillet at the fireplace, and the odor aggravated his already too keen appetite.

  34. I think the blue-smoke-cabin idea is very romantic, but when I mentioned it to Mammy Lou she got mad and jerked the skillet off the stove so suddenly that the grease popped out and burnt her finger.

  35. When the assistant cook, with whom I was favored, had started the fire and sufficient coals had accumulated, he would rake them out and place the skillet on them.

  36. There was also a skillet for baking bread, which resembled a covered spider without a handle.

  37. Say there was the fat blonde in Saint Jo, and the panatela brunette at Skillet Ridge, and the gold tooth down in the Kaw valley.

  38. When the first snowflakes fell me and Idaho Green laughed at each other's jokes and praised the stuff we turned out of a skillet and called bread.

  39. So I'm going to suggest to Ed that on Christmas day he roast the onions in a pan or skillet and bake the potatoes in the ashes.

  40. He put the onions into a skillet and placing live coals under and upon the lid of that utensil, left them to roast.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skillet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.