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Example sentences for "small pinch"

  • Then put in a small pinch of cayenne pepper and a cupful of fish stock and cook for ten minutes.

  • Pare and core tart apples; fill the centers with sugar, butter and a small pinch of cinnamon or a little grated nutmeg.

  • For a small family, put one pint of milk into a bowl, a small pinch of salt: break into this (without beating) two fresh eggs.

  • Pound three anchovies in a mortar with one tablespoon butter, small pinch of pepper, one shake cayenne, one half teaspoon lemon juice and the yolks of the eggs.

  • A small pinch of carbonate of soda will give an extraordinary lightness to puff pastes; and, introduced into the teapot, will extract the full strength of the tea.

  • To render this dish more economical, substitute milk for the cream, but add a small pinch of isinglass to make the creams firm.

  • Put the mustard in a cup, with a small pinch of salt, and mix with it very gradually sufficient boiled water to make it drop from the spoon without being watery.

  • A small pinch of table-salt ought to be added to whatever food is given, as "the best savour is salt.

  • It must be made with equal parts of water and of good fresh milk, and ought to be slightly sweetened with loaf sugar; a small pinch of table salt should be added to it.

  • A small pinch of the Citric Acid dissolved in a tumbler of water with a little sugar and a pinch of bicarbonate of potash, makes an effervescing draught.

  • Put a small pinch of salt to the whites of four eggs, whip them as stiff as possible, and stir lightly into the pudding, which pour immediately into the prepared mould.

  • Mix a small teaspoonful of curry powder with three teaspoonfuls of fine flour and a small pinch of salt.

  • When done, strain the macaroni through a colander, put it back into the saucepan with an ounce of fresh butter, a small pinch of white pepper and of salt, if necessary, and shake it over the fire for a minute or two.

  • If found a little too brown to match your sample, a small pinch of turmeric added to bath will reduce the shade.

  • Add a small pinch of soda, after which rinse in about three warm waters to insure the removal of every particle of soap.

  • If tomatoes are very tart a small pinch of baking soda, added when cooked, will counteract acidity.

  • A delicious "cream of tomato soup" may be prepared by substituting milk or cream to which a small pinch of baking soda has been added, omitting the beans.

  • Add a small pinch of baking soda to the water in which string beans are boiled, and they will cook tender in less time.

  • Add pepper and salt and a small pinch of thyme.

  • It may be said that the preparation has a better appearance if the bread is cut very small before the boiling milk is poured on it, and also that the addition of a small pinch of salt takes away the insipidity.

  • A small pinch of turmeric can be boiled in the milk.

  • Return the purée to the fire, and stir into it a large heaping tablespoonful of butter and a small pinch of mace.

  • Half a pint of sweet milk, a scant half pint of flour, two rounded teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a small pinch of salt, stir all together; this should make a batter as thick as that of cake.

  • If the water they are boiled in is hard, a small pinch of soda will soften it.

  • Eggs beat up much lighter and sooner by being placed in a cold place sometime before using them; a small pinch of soda sometimes has the same effect.

  • Sprinkle in a small pinch of salt and three-quarters of an ounce of the finest isinglass or gelatine.

  • Cream a cup of butter with two and one half cups sugar, add a cup of rich milk, beat hard, then add gradually the flour, following it with the whites of seven eggs beaten very stiff with a small pinch of salt.

  • Rub over with fat, season with salt and pepper inside and out, and strew inside lightly a small pinch of powdered sage.

  • A little of this is put into the gun barrel, with the bullet, and sometimes a small pinch is dropped upon the track of the animal to compel it to halt at whatever place it may be when the powder is so sprinkled upon the ground.

  • It is powdered as required, and a small pinch of it is dissolved in water, a few drops of which are dropped into the ear of a patient suffering from earache.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small pinch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    letter addressed; meaning tone; small animals; small arms; small circular; small cottage; small creek; small detachments; small island; small library; small matter; small onion; small patch; small people; small piece; small place; small pots; small present; small settlement; small square; small star; small temple; small vessels; small village; small wares; smaller quantity