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Example sentences for "taken from the fire"

  • If green corn is in season, this stew is greatly improved by adding, an hour before it is taken from the fire, the grains of half a dozen ears, cut from the cob.

  • The juice of a lemon, stirred in just before it is taken from the fire, is an improvement.

  • If, after the fruit is taken from the fire, a reddish liquor oozes from it, drain this off before adding the clear syrup.

  • If making a rich soup that requires wine or catchup, let it be added the last thing, just before the soup is taken from the fire.

  • Stew them in their own juice (no water,) and sweeten them when they are taken from the fire.

  • Also, by stirring in two table-spoonfuls of cream about five minutes before it is taken from the fire.

  • The extra material should be added when the pan is taken from the fire, and stirred with the egg until it has finished cooking.

  • The cooking must be arrested as soon as it is taken from the fire by holding the pan in cold water for a minute or so.

  • If a vanilla bean is used for flavoring, infuse it with the syrup; if the extract is used add a teaspoonful of it to the custard when it is taken from the fire.

  • For flavoring infuse a vanilla bean with the syrup, or add a teaspoonful of vanilla extract, or of maraschino, or any flavoring desired, to the custard when it is taken from the fire.

  • Before it is taken from the fire, add the strained juice of a sound fresh lemon, then turn the preparation into a jelly-bag, or let it stand for a quarter of an hour, and then strain it through a muslin folded in four.

  • The usual sauce for baked salmon is melted butter, flavoured with the juice of a lemon, and a glass of port wine, stirred in just before the butter is taken from the fire.

  • When it has boiled, and is taken from the fire, stir into the cream a wine-glass of rose-water.

  • Pour over the grated bread a pint of boiling milk, into which you have stirred, as soon as taken from the fire, a piece of fresh butter, the size of an egg.

  • When the box has been sufficiently heated, it may be taken from the fire, and placed among hot ashes, until both ashes and box have gradually cooled; for the slower the wires cool, the softer and easier wrought they will be.

  • After boiling a few minutes the copper must be taken from the fire, and placed on a table at such an angle as that the liquor may be conveniently transvased.

  • The copper is to be taken from the fire, and left at rest for 25 or 30 minutes to allow the carmine to fall down.

  • Add grated cheese and a beaten egg just as the rice is taken from the fire.

  • Lift it from the pan and with the fat remaining in the pan make a gravy to pour over it, which may be enriched by the addition of a beaten egg and a dash of lemon juice just as it is taken from the fire.

  • Season with cheese and butter and add the egg yolk to bind it just as it is taken from the fire.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taken from the fire" 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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