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Example sentences for "then press"

  • Then press a little way into it with great lumps of raw Marrow.

  • Then press it with a half pound weight for two or three hours.

  • Turn off the milk; add some ice water, and work the butter until it is firm and free from milk; then press it into pats, and keep it in a tight jar on the ice until ready to use.

  • Remove the oysters; chop and pound them in a mortar, then press as much of them as possible through a puree sieve.

  • Cut the meat or fish in pieces (excepting chicken, which is scraped), and pound it in a mortar to separate the flesh from the fiber, then press it through a puree sieve.

  • Let these stand till the water is cool; then press it out, and mash the bread with a fork until it is quite free from lumps.

  • Pick and wash the spinach free from dirt, and pound the leaves in a mortar to extract the juice; then press it through a hair sieve, and put the juice into a small stewpan or jar.

  • Then press through a colander and add four tablespoons of sugar (or less) to each pint of apples.

  • Mix cold boiled rice with the juice and rind of a lemon, 1 cup of sugar and 1/2 glass of fine rum; then press into a mold.

  • Soak 1/2 loaf of bread in water; then press it dry.

  • Soak 6 crackers in water; then press dry.

  • Then press it through a puree sieve and add to it the salmon from a one pound can, removing first all the bones, skin and oil.

  • Add to the tomatoes one pint of boiling water and two tablespoonfuls of butter, then press through a sieve.

  • Sprinkle over a teaspoonful of salt, then press through a sieve.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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