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Example sentences for "stew"

Lexicographically close words:
stetit; stets; steuen; stevedore; stevedores; steward; stewardess; stewardesses; stewards; stewardship
  1. She had left the tender breast and shoulder of lamb for the stew simmering on the back of the stove, and the vegetables were all ready to put in it.

  2. Like you like' is almost as good as the stew will be," chuckled her father faintly.

  3. A simple way in which to prepare prunes is to stew them and then add sugar to sweeten them.

  4. Select prunes of good size and stew them according to the directions just given, but remove them from the fire before they have become very soft.

  5. Rub them through sieve or colander, put them back in the stew pan with milk, and let boil.

  6. That is to say, the soup or stew must be raised to this temperature, after the meat juices have been drawn out by a lower one, while a joint or fowl must be lowered to it after the surface albumen has been hardened by a higher one.

  7. Stew mushrooms; put chicken either in oven or under broiler, bone side to hottest part of fire.

  8. Stew them gently in syrup with grated rind of 1/2 lemon.

  9. The time depends greatly on the quality of the meat, but none will stew satisfactorily in less than from one and a half to two hours, and the longer allowance is to be preferred.

  10. Then add flour and stand saucepan where it will stew gently 2 hours.

  11. Put 3 tablespoons Crisco in a pan, when warm add apples, 3 tablespoons sugar, grated rind 1 lemon, and stew slowly till soft, then rub through a sieve.

  12. By taking the tendons off, stew them for entrees.

  13. If an old one, stew it with vegetables, as duck (No.

  14. Peel and cut four apples into quarters, take out the cores, and stew them as directed for pears, but using the rind of an orange instead of the rind of a lemon.

  15. If a piece of udder can be procured, stew it with the fricandeau, and serve it in the same dish.

  16. And presently the wanderer was gratefully eating the hot bowl of stew as he sat on the bench beside Sig, who had again started work on making the boat.

  17. I only do a small business," said Sam, looking around from where he was bending over the stove, making some sort of a stew in a broken kettle.

  18. There was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.

  19. For tomato purée, stew and strain tomatoes, then let simmer until reduced to a thick consistency, and season with salt and pepper and a few drops vinegar.

  20. To prepare tomato purée stew tomatoes, force through a strainer and cook until reduced to a thick pulp.

  21. Pare and core six large apples, cut up, and stew half hour with small cup of water, then add small cup sugar, mash together with a wooden stirrer.

  22. Stew gently some tomatoes with a little butter, pepper and salt, when soft mash with a fork, and add to them a well-beaten egg until they thicken.

  23. But Mai Kishnu stirred the pickle-stew to the new rhythm, emphasising it properly with little strokes of the ladle upon the resounding brass pot.

  24. I here missed Damphool, and found him an hour afterwards, paying his devotions to an eighteen-penny oyster stew and a mug of ale.

  25. So you perceive, Bolt, that it would be a republican, Jacobinical proceeding to stew members of a family so intimately associated with royalty.

  26. It was as much as ever if we had bread to eat every day, and stew every Sunday.

  27. To serve, lift the dumplings carefully and lay around the edge of the platter; place stew in the center, and over it pour the sauce.

  28. Cover the pan, draw to the back of the coal range, or reduce the flame of the gas so that the stew will not boil, and let it simmer for one and one-half hours.

  29. December 24, but so much time was absorbed in making a dog-stew for Christmas that it was not till 2.

  30. Shredding half the penguin-meat, we boiled it up and found the stew and broth excellent.

  31. She was there erect and brave in spite of everything; but what a downfall if she were no longer able to keep her room tidy, stew a piece of veal on Sundays, and gossip with the neighbours while awaiting her husband's return from work!

  32. Make white sauce of butter and flour and a little water, mix this with your hash, let it stew for a while, then add one raw egg and stir it madly.

  33. Then add clams which have been taken out of the can and put into a dish, and stew five minutes before onions are done.

  34. The liquid out of an olive bottle adds greatly to the flavor if you pour it in while the stew is cooking.

  35. You can take ripe tomatoes, cut them up, stew them and put them through a strainer.

  36. Next place in a stew pan about a pint of cream or half cream and half milk and let come to a boil.

  37. There ought to be enough of this stew for four people, but I can usually manage the whole thing myself with only the slightest assistance from my wife.

  38. At first the Ogress would not hear of such a thing, but at last she consented, and made a stew of one of the little pigs instead of cooking the little girl.

  39. Not one of all the extravagant hussies I have had as wives ever cooked them at all," said the Ogre; and he thought to himself, "Such a stew out of rats!

  40. The stew was perfect, and there was plenty of it.

  41. But she must stir the stew with her forefinger first," said the Ogress, "that it may have a human flavour.

  42. Life ain't all catnip anyway you stew it.

  43. Silently the man filled each dish with the stew and laid it in its place.

  44. If we had bread in the house every day and stew every Sunday it was the most we had to expect.

  45. Apples take longer to stew than peaches, and should have more water.

  46. Gather the flowers of the sweet white lily, while they are fresh, and stew them in sweet lard.

  47. Cut a slice of ham into small pieces, and pour boiling water on it; let it soak a few minutes to extract the salt, and stew it in a little water; just before it is done, put in some cream and parsley.

  48. Put a tea-cupful of rich cream over some coals to stew with three table-spoonsful of powdered loaf-sugar.

  49. This took away what was left of our strength, and we swore we would rather waste away, and slowly dry up, than eat such stew in the future.

  50. For excellent reasons our stew was of the simplest.

  51. She had made a big Irish stew for dinner, and when the house was cleared up, she had leave to take Bess out.

  52. She can't make an Irish stew worth shucks, an' yers wud jist make a felly sing in his sleep.

  53. Let stew slowly with one cup of water and 1/2 cup of the spiced vinegar until tender.

  54. Cover with hot water and let stew slowly until tender.

  55. Cut into large slices; salt well and sprinkle with black pepper and let stew with sliced onion, some celery and parsley.

  56. Cut a sheep's liver into pieces and stew with the sheep's head in 4 quarts of water.

  57. Heat some dripping in a saucepan; add the meat, salt and black pepper; cover and let stew half an hour.

  58. Clean and stew the brains with 1/2 cup of vinegar, 1 sliced onion, salt and pepper.

  59. Heat 2 tablespoonfuls of drippings in a pan; add the cabbage; cover and let stew with 2 apples, and 1 onion chopped fine.

  60. Clean a fat hen and cut into pieces at the joints; season and let stew with 2 sliced onions, 2 carrots and 1 potato, cut into dice pieces.

  61. Season and stew 2 spring chickens with 1 onion, some capers, parsley, 1 bay-leaf and 2 sprigs of thyme chopped fine until tender.

  62. Let all stew until tender; then add some chopped mushrooms and pour over all 1 cup of hot rich cream.

  63. Let stew slowly with chopped onions, chives, celery and parsley; add salt and paprica to taste.

  64. Season the breast of mutton with salt, pepper, thyme and mace; let stew slowly with 1 onion and 2 cloves of garlic chopped.

  65. Cover and let stew slowly until nearly done; then add 1 cup of tomato-sauce and cook slowly until tender.

  66. Cover and brown a few minutes; add 1 cup of water and stew until tender.

  67. Place a border of mashed potatoes on a platter and put the stew in the centre; serve hot.

  68. I hope this here lucid story will quite th' waggin' tongues iv scandal an' that people will let th' Ph'lippeens stew in their own happiness.

  69. Ye can't make freedom into a stew an' ye can't cut a pair iv pants out iv it.


  70. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    stew gently; stew them; stewed fruit; stewed prunes; stewed rump; stewed tomatoes