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Example sentences for "three pints"

  • Pour on to the chicken, ham and okra half a gallon of boiling water and let it boil down to three pints.

  • Hurlbut Cut four heads celery into small pieces and boil it in three pints of water with one-fourth pound of lean ham minced; simmer gently for an hour.

  • Take four tablespoonfuls of rice, and boil it hard in three pints of water for twenty minutes.

  • Three pints of sifted flour; one cup of lard; one teaspoonful of salt.

  • One cup of rice; three pints of milk; one heaping cup of sugar; one teaspoonful of salt.

  • The bones and a pound of meat from a chicken put in three pints of cold water.

  • Boil one ounce and a half of tamarind, two ounces of stoned raisins, and three ounces of cranberries in three pints of water until two pints remain.

  • Infuse one pint of ground malt for two hours in three pints of scalding water.

  • Put a handful or two of oatmeal into some boiling water, and after it has thickened a little, leave it to cool till it is lukewarm; mix with it two or three pints of skim-milk, and give it to the calf to drink.

  • To make another sort of cream cheese, put as much salt to three pints of raw cream as will season it.

  • Wash a handful of common barley, then simmer it gently in three pints of water, with a bit of lemon peel.

  • Boil a quart or three pints of cream, according to the quantity of pith, with such spices as suit your taste: beat a quarter of a pound of almonds and put to the cream.

  • Make a brine of four quarts of water, three pints of salt, half a table-spoonful of saltpetre, and a pint of molasses, or a pound of coarse brown sugar.

  • Boil up a quart of good brown sugar in three pints of cider; set it off, and after a few minutes take off the scum; then put in a pint of chopped meat, a quart of chopped apple, and four large crackers pounded and sifted.

  • To three pints of water put a small handful of hops, or if they are in compact pound papers, as put up by the Shakers, half a handful; boil them about half an hour.

  • Boil two feet in three quarts of water, until it is wasted to three pints.

  • A decoction of Marsh Mallow is made by adding five pints of water to a quarter-of-a-pound of the dried root, then boiling down to three pints, and straining through calico.

  • Boil down half a pound of the bruised fresh herb in a gallon of distilled water to two quarts, and give from one to three pints in the twenty-four hours.

  • One pound of sugar, three pints of water, the juice of two lemons and one orange, and the whites of two eggs beaten with one gill of maraschino.

  • Drain, and add to three pints of consomme.

  • Use two teaspoonfuls in two tablespoonfuls of water, to three pints of juice.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three pints" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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