Uncle Chester had always been nice to us but then he got as sour as pickles.
If the milk has turned a little sour add lime water to it, in the proportion of four tablespoonfuls of the lime water to a quart.
Lina has made a soup of sour cream, which is now reposing in the ice-box!
In India fresh mangoes take the part of oursour apples.
As soon as the onions begin to change colour, take a small carrot and cut it up into little piece; and a sour apple.
If you have no sour apples, a few green gooseberries are a very good substitute.
If you add vinegar to cucumber before the oil some of the slices will taste like sour pickle, as the vinegar soaks into the cucumber.
If you have no curry paste, cut up a sour apple and add it to the vegetables in the frying-pan.
She looked in the churn as Aunt Abigail unscrewed the top, and saw the thick, sour cream separating into buttermilk and tiny golden particles.
One Madge, an old woman as sour as vinegar, who snarled at me like a toothless cur when I once went there to find an old fowling-piece of my father's.
Never mind them, my dear, if they do look sour on you.
Castanier went, not caring to expose himself to the sour looks that the irritated functionaries gave him.
Here even at noon it was dark; and the air was laden with an undefinable odour of barracks--the smell of stables, straw, and sour bread.
The sour stuff of this Lombardy burns my throat like vinegar.
We talk for hours over a half-flagon of sour wine, amid the oaths of boatmen who finger filthy cards and lay plots together for extortion.
And Mr. Fenellan had said of Mr. Durance that, as 'a barrister wanting briefs, the speech in him had been bottled too long and was an overripe wine dripping sour drops through the rotten cork.
The evil Sindolt had given him a sour cider, made of crab-apples, and sweetened with the juice of the blackberry.
A jug of reddish looking wine, was also brought by Rauching; but that had grown on the Sippling hills, a vintage which still enjoys the reputation of being the most sour of all the sour wines produced on the lake.
He had a small loaf of brown bread, a pickled herring, and some verysour wine.
It betokens that all good things of life will be provided for--that we shall not have to wait three hours at Juvisy for dinner, nor be treated with goat's flesh and rye bread, sour wine and stale salad.
All of us know that vinegar and lemon juice have a sour taste, and it is easy to show that most acids are characterized by a sour taste.
These correct a tendency to sour stomach because they counteract the surplus acid in the stomach, and form with it a safe neutral substance.
Sour milk and buttermilk are quite as good as cream of tartar, because the lactic acid which they contain combines with the soda and liberates carbon dioxide, and forms a harmless residue in the dough.
Many housewives look askance at ready-made baking powders and prefer to bake with soda and sour milk, soda and buttermilk, or soda and cream of tartar.
This test shows that many of our common foods contain some acid; for example, fruit, buttermilk, sour bread, and vinegar.
Sift buttered crumbs freely over the whole; brown in a hot oven, and serve as a vegetable with fish, with sour grape jelly melted and poured over it.
Aigre-Doux Sauce Add to two cups of sour cream the juice and fine-grated rind of one large lemon.
When selecting fruits for breakfast, the fact must not be overlooked that the starch of cereals and acid fruits, like a sour orange, often disagree.
Soft Gingerbread To two beaten eggs in a mixing-bowl add two tablespoonfuls of butter, melted, three-eighths a cup of sour milk, and one cup of molasses.
A hard astringent tannage in sour liquors after a sharp liming might make bating essential, but in these days it is usual to avoid it and produce the effect in other ways.
This material has also some sugars and yields sour and plumping liquors.
The tannage is also mellow, on account of the softness and pliability required; no acids are consequently employed, and no material which is liable to yield sour liquors.
Add the sour cream or thick sour milk and about one cup of egg sauce.
If whipped cream can not conveniently be obtained, plain sweet or sour cream may be used in the dressing, but it will not be so light and flaky.
After all, the memories sweet andsour associated with them had had time to lose their edge.
Sour and sad, dried up and done with women, a man still has feelings.
He cast a sour look upon the group, and there was special malignity in his gaze as it rested for a moment on Frank.
While I must characterize Master Hugh as being a very sour man, and of forbidding appearance, it is due to him to acknowledge, that he was never very cruel to me, according to the notion of cruelty in Maryland.
They looked as sour as vinegar, and as bitter as gall, when they found I was to be admitted on equal terms with themselves.
I was so warm and thirsty that I took a good, long pull before I found out that it wasn't cider at all, but vinegar, sour enough to take a man's head off.
Curious odors greeted him, as of sour vegetables and of unknown rank substances burning.
A faintly soursmell of parched things, oppressing the night without breath or motion, was like an interminable presence, irritating, poisonous.
Sour bread and sour wine, with strong cheese, and a strange-looking pie, composed of materials into which it was not prudent to inquire, gave us a lunch that might have been worse.
An English lady gave me an approving nod, but the men were too far gone in beef and sour wine to pay any attention to lessons in good breeding.
In the space of a brief half hour the world was lighted up for the business of another day, and when we had had a cup of wretched coffee and a bit of sour bread, we "marched down again.
The milk of human kindness is less apt to turn sour if the vessel that holds it stands steady, cool, and separate, and is not too often uncorked.
