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Example sentences for "then strain"

  • Stir until just before boiling, then strain it, allow it to become cold, pour it over your marrons, and serve.

  • Simmer gently at the side of the range for half an hour, then strain through a flannel several times, or until perfectly clear.

  • Simmer gently for a full hour, then strain through a sieve, return the liquor to the pan, and stir in a few spoonfuls of cream with great care.

  • Some cooks add the finer meat before straining, boiling all together five hours; then strain, thicken and put in the green fat, cut into lumps an inch long.

  • Then strain it through a colander into the tureen, and put into it small squares of toasted bread with the crust cut off.

  • Boil the whole gently four hours; then strain it through a colander, mashing the vegetables so that they will all pass through.

  • Boil one drachm of bruised galls in twelve ounces of water until only half a pint remains, then strain, and add one ounce of laudanum.

  • Boil two ounces of the pulp of tamarinds in two pints of milk, then strain.

  • Boil the galls and logwood in six pints of spring or distilled water, until nearly three pints of water are evaporated, then strain it through a piece of flannel.

  • Let it stand six weeks; then strain it off quite clear, and keep it in small bottles sealed up.

  • To every gallon of apple juice, immediately as it comes from the press, add two pounds of lump sugar; boil it as long as any scum rises, then strain it through a sieve, and let it cool.

  • Simmer all gently for twenty minutes, then strain it through a sieve, and bottle it for use.

  • Let it stand to cool a little, then strain it through a piece of muslin into jars for use.

  • Simmer for half an hour, then strain, flavour with lemon juice and salt, boil up, and it is ready.

  • Put back the bones and boil the liquor quickly without the lid for half an hour, then strain off.

  • Let come to a boil; then strain in molds to cool.

  • Put the mixture in a farina kettle, and cook till it assumes the thickness of soft custard; then strain, and beat briskly till cold.

  • When well heated, mash the fruit well with a wooden potato masher, then strain through a fine sieve, being careful to get every drop of substance from the fruit.

  • Let this stand about two hours, then strain over a pound of sugar, stir until the sugar is dissolved, and then set upon ice.

  • Then strain, through a fine hair sieve and let it stand ten or twelve hours.

  • Then strain it; cover it; and set it away.

  • Then strain it; and put the liquid into a clean sauce-pan.

  • Then strain it; return the liquid to the sauce-pan; add a bit of butter rolled in flour; and squeeze in the juice of a lemon.

  • Then strain it into a broad white-ware pan, and set it away to get cold.

  • When the liquor boils, skim well and let it boil gently 6 or 7 hours, so as to reduce the quantity to 2 quarts; then strain through a sieve and skim off all the oily substance.

  • Have ready 3 quarts of veal broth, bruise the small legs and the shell, and put them into it to boil for 20 minutes, then strain.

  • Let it boil twenty minutes, then strain it, put it back in the stew pan and add the oysters.

  • Let them stand three hours, then strain off as much of the juice as possible from the lemons, put it in a sauce-pan over a slow fire, and as soon as the juice begins to simmer throw in the slices of lemon.

  • Boil four calves' feet in three quarts of water until the water is reduced to one quart, then strain it through a flannel jelly bag and stand it away to cool.

  • Let the mixture stand until sufficiently cool; then strain, and administer in pint doses, every ten minutes.

  • Let the whole stand in a covered vessel for an hour; then strain, and add a gill of honey.

  • Allow the infusion to stand until cool; then strain, and give it a dose.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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