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Example sentences for "strain through"

  • Place all on the fire and stir until it begins to thicken; strain through a hair sieve, place in freezer, and when nearly frozen stir in lightly the whipped cream.

  • Let it boil ten minutes, strain through a flannel bag, and set aside to cool.

  • Let it simmer gently for 1-1/2 hours, strain through a hair sieve.

  • Have the chicken drawn and disjointed; make two pieces of the breast, cut it into four pieces, dust with salt and pepper, brush with melted butter.

  • When Making Grape Juice or Jelly= Before adding the sugar, strain through a flannel bag.

  • Strain through a sieve, and cook until you have one quart.

  • Let these very gently simmer for half an hour, skimming frequently; strain through a fine sieve, and return to the stewpan.

  • Strain through a coarse strainer, and allow juice to drain through a jelly bag.

  • Strain through a moistened cheese-cloth and add the sugar and the lemon juice.

  • Strain through a coarse strainer, rubbing all of the pulp through.

  • Bring to a boil, strain through a napkin, and serve in cups.

  • Then take off the fire and strain through a flannel jelly bag, and add the flavoring desired.

  • Then remove the bouquet and the meat, strain through a fine sieve, add one pint of boiling thick cream, three ounces of sweet butter, and a little Cayenne pepper.

  • Season with salt and a little Cayenne pepper, strain through a fine sieve, place in a pan on ice, and stir in slowly one-quarter pint of thick cream, adding it little by little.

  • Strain through a sieve, put the best parts of the hare in the soup, and serve.

  • Strain through a colander, rubbing the peas into a tolerably thick purée into the vessel below.

  • Then pour over them the boiling water; stir until the gelatine is dissolved; strain through a flannel bag, without pressing.

  • Strain through a colander, set aside two quarts of the stock until to-morrow, after seasoning it all, and return the rest to the fire.

  • When your soup is about half done, and before you strain it, take out a cupful, strain through a thin cloth, and put into a saucepan, with a little salt and a tablespoonful of butter.

  • Strain through a common sieve; put the meat of the lobster to the gravy; add some good rich melted butter, and send to table.

  • Strain through a fine sieve; put it into your pan again; season with pepper and salt, and let it boil up.

  • Boil ten minutes; strain through a French strainer; skim off all the fat; put in the whites of three eggs, and pass all through a strainer till it is quite clear.

  • Strain through a colander and leave out meat.

  • Strain through a sieve and return to the pan adding one quart of milk, salt and pepper; thicken with two tablespoonfuls of butter and two tablespoonfuls of flour rubbed to a paste.

  • Strain through a fine sieve, season with salt, pepper and put in ice box to harden.

  • Serve as it is or strain through a colander and put pieces of toasted bread into the soup.

  • Strain through a fine sieve and serve in cups or soup plates and sprinkle the top with maple sugar.

  • Turn this into the sauce, stir for a moment; strain through a fine sieve; add half a teaspoon of salt and serve.

  • Strain through a colander, and, if not perfectly smooth, return to fire, and add a thickening made of one heaping teaspoonful of flour and an even one of butter, stirred together with a little hot water and boiled five minutes.

  • Strain through a colander, and put up in glasses or bowls.

  • As it heats, jam with a potato-masher; and when hot through, strain through a jelly-bag.

  • Boil one bushel of ripe tomatoes, skins and all, and, when soft, strain through a colander.

  • Strain through a jelly bag until clear, then seal in bottles.

  • Strain through a jelly bag and measure the juice, allowing a pint of sugar to each pint of juice.

  • One half package Knox gelatine dissolved in one cup cold water; one cup maple syrup heated to boiling point, mix with gelatine, strain through a cloth and cool.

  • Boil two gallons of wheat and an ounce of alum in four gallons of water; strain through a fine sieve; dissolve half a pound more of alum and white tartar; add three pounds of madder, then put in the silk at a moderate heat.

  • Strain through blotting-paper, and bottle up for use.

  • Strain through a sieve, rubbing the apple pulp through, but leaving cores, etc.

  • Strain through a hair sieve, and serve the clear liquid after boiling up.

  • In cases of illness, especially where the patient is suffering from intestinal trouble, after preparing as above, strain through a fine muslin.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strain through" 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:
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