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Example sentences for "watercress"

Lexicographically close words:
waterborne; waterbuck; watercolour; watercourse; watercourses; watercresses; watered; waterers; waterest; watereth
  1. Handles of watercress may be attached to these baskets.

  2. Add an equal quantity of minced watercress dressed with a teaspoonful of grated horseradish, a little salt and paprika to season, and enough softened butter or thick cream to moisten.

  3. It is the young watercress that tempts them and the pleasures of society, for they seldom drink.

  4. Where the irrigating ditches are shallow and a little neglected, they choke quickly with watercress that multiplies about the lowest Sierra springs.

  5. Say that I, Grace Gollivar Philow, will go back first chance I get, and fetch watercress for the whole community.

  6. Serve with maitre d'hotel sauce, and garnish with watercress and half of lemon.

  7. Clean and wash the watercress well, and season with salt and vinegar.

  8. Cut some pears in squares, and add equal parts of watercress and lettuce.

  9. Place in salad bowl in separate piles with a bouquet of watercress in center.

  10. Take a handful of spinach, one of watercress and one of parsley and mash fine in a mortar.

  11. Garnish with watercress and serve with maitre d'hotel sauce.

  12. When done place each quail on a piece of buttered toast, put a spoonful of maitre d'hotel butter on top of each, and garnish with watercress and lemons cut in half.

  13. One April evening I went down to the Halliford brook for watercress for my Uncle Corny’s supper.

  14. If, however, you prefer turning it out on a platter, garnish the edges of the same with watercress or parsley.

  15. Use watercress picked from the hard stems, mustard and cress, or shred lettuce leaves.

  16. Blanch the watercress and parsley by throwing them for five minutes into boiling water.

  17. Pickles Olives Cheese balls Parsley Watercress Attractive paper or plain linen doilies Nut meats Desserts by their very nature, require some garnish to make them the perfect and satisfying last course which they should be.

  18. Watercress may be propagated from pieces of the stem, used as cuttings.

  19. Watercress should be sown in damp soil or in streams.

  20. Watercress may be used whenever it can be procured, but it is not very desirable when in blossom.

  21. Illustration] Where the irrigating ditches are shallow and a little neglected, they choke quickly with watercress that multiplies about the lowest Sierra springs.

  22. Chop the whites of the eggs up very fine, mix all together; turn the mixture smoothly into a salad bowl or glass dish, and garnish with watercress and beetroot.

  23. Arrange them in a dish, sprinkling pepper and salt in between; mix pieces of watercress with the eggs and tomatoes, pour over the mayonnaise, and garnish with more watercress.

  24. Turn the mixture into a salad bowl or glass dish, and garnish with parsley or watercress and beetroot.

  25. Lay on a hot platter, season with salt and pepper, spread with a rounding tablespoonful butter stirred with a tablespoonful finely minced parsley, garnish with watercress and little moulds or spoonfuls of cranberry jelly and serve.

  26. Garnish with parsley and watercress and serve alone or with a currant jelly sauce.

  27. So great is the demand for watercress in New York when it first comes in that the prices range from 2s.

  28. Cover with the rest of the lettuce, and garnish with the other egg cut in slices, and a little watercress or beetroot.

  29. Wash and cleanse the watercress and lettuce and cut into pieces.

  30. Garnish with sprigs of watercress and slices of beetroot alternately.

  31. Of course all watercress should be thoroughly washed and then dried in a towel, like the lettuce for the salad, before it is eaten.

  32. At this rate an acre of watercress under cultivation would represent almost a fortune.

  33. The latter is to be obtained from John Chinaman, it is true; but it is curious that in Australia we see none of the watercress vendors so familiar in the streets of the old country.

  34. In this capacity it ranks about equal with watercress and lettuce, which both find their chief uses as salads.

  35. Watercress laid against warts was formerly said to drive them away.

  36. As he jogged along the road to Watercress Farm, he muttered at intervals: "A thousand pounds in those white figures!

  37. Besides, one would think that the tenant of Watercress Farm had little at present to complain of.

  38. Mr. Herbert took the lease of the farm off the young man's hands, by and by the live and the dead stock were sold off, and Watercress Farm was waiting for another tenant.

  39. Perhaps it was as well it should be so, the farmer's last moments were troubled ones and full of regret that Watercress Farm would no longer know a Leigh.

  40. Who occupies the Watercress Farm now, and whether in these days of depression his rent is forthcoming or not, matters little.

  41. It was, perhaps, for somewhat similar reasons, a custom handed down from father to son and established by time, that the tenant of Watercress Farm paid his rent to the landlord in person, not through the medium of an agent.

  42. I ate some watercress once at home," said Janet.

  43. It has been stated that caterpillars fed upon hedge garlic and horseradish produce light butterflies, and that those reared on mignonette and watercress produce dark butterflies.

  44. Barrett mentions having reared a brood of the caterpillars upon a bunch of watercress placed in water and stood in a sunny window, but he does not refer to anything peculiar about the butterflies resulting therefrom.

  45. July 3 Roast Lamb New Potatoes Green Peas *Summer Squash Watercress and Cucumber Salad Coffee Ice Cream Lady Fingers *Summer Squash--Cut summer squashes into small pieces and boil till tender in salted water.

  46. Put into Criscoed baking dish; bake in moderate oven 1 hour; turn out on heated platter; garnish with parsley or watercress and serve with Piquante sauce.

  47. Potatoes Sefton 1 tablespoonful Crisco 3 baked potatoes Salt, pepper, and red pepper to taste 1 yolk of egg 1 tablespoonful cream Chopped parsley Watercress Split potatoes in halves lengthways.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watercress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.