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Example sentences for "three waters"

  • If the onions are strong and large, boil in three waters, throwing away all of the first and second, and reserving a very little of the third to mix with the milk.

  • Wash the salmon in two or three waters, rubbing it lightly with a coarse cloth to remove the salt-crystals.

  • Boil in three waters, changing the hot for cold every time, until very tender; drain, and lay in ice-water.

  • Having picked and drawn them, wash out well in two or three waters, adding a little soda to the last but one should any doubtful odor linger about the cavity.

  • Boil your barley in two or three waters, till it looks white and tender; pour the water clean from the barley, and put as much cream as will make it tolerably thick, and a blade or two of mace, and let it boil.

  • Wash the greens well in two or three waters, and pick off all the decayed and dead leaves; tie them in small bunches, and put them into plenty of boiling water, salted in the above proportion.

  • Cut a pair of chickens into pieces, as for carving; and wash them through two or three waters.

  • Pick clean a quart of rice, and wash it well through two or three waters.

  • Pick the spinach very clean, and wash it through two or three waters.

  • Having washed it through two or three waters, pour boiling water on it, cover it, and let it soak all night, or for several hours.

  • Orange cheesecakes are done in the same way, only the peel must be boiled in two or three waters to take out the bitterness: or make them of orange marmalade well beaten in a mortar.

  • Boil whole Seville oranges in two or three waters, till most of the bitterness is gone.

  • Pick them clean, wash them in two or three waters, and rub them with salt.

  • After the potatoes are sliced, wash them in two or three waters to thoroughly cleanse them, then arrange them neatly (in layers) in a brown stone dish proper for baking purposes.

  • Wash well, in three waters, half a pound of rice; strain it, and put it into the boiling water in saucepan.

  • Pick and draw them, wash out well in two or three waters, adding a little soda to the last but one to sweeten it, if there is doubt as to its being fresh.

  • Having washed it through two or three waters, pour boiling water on it; cover it, and let it soak all night, or for several hours.

  • Wash two quarts of them over night in two or three waters.

  • Wash it through two or three waters, till it drains off quite clean.

  • Wash the butter in three waters, working it over well to get out the salt.

  • Wash a calf’s head (cleaned with the skin on), in three waters, and soak one hour in salted water.

  • Wash well in three waters, adding a little soda to the second.

  • Here by north it interteineth two or three waters in one chanell, called [Sidenote: Rauenswath.

  • That other (as I coniecture) is increased of three waters, wherof each [Sidenote: Tudo.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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