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Example sentences for "well skimmed"

  • When the scum rises, skim it well, and let it simmer gently for three or four hours, keeping it well skimmed.

  • Take eight gallons of spring water, twelve pounds of honey, four pounds of powdered sugar; boil them for an hour, keeping it well skimmed.

  • Care must be taken, in making this, to keep the jam well stirred and well skimmed, to prevent it burning at the bottom of the pan, and to have it very clear.

  • When it is well skimmed, boil it very gently for 6 or 7 hours, or until the liquor is reduced rather more than half; then strain it through a sieve into a basin, and put it in a cool place to set.

  • After it is well skimmed, draw the pot to the corner of the fire, allow the liquor to cool, then let the beef simmer very gently until done.

  • When it is well skimmed, draw the pot to the corner of the fire, and let it simmer very gently until done.

  • See that it is well skimmed, so that, when done, there will be not a particle of fat or scum on the surface.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    well able; well administered; well advised; well and; well armed; well browned; well convinced; well defined; well developed; well dressed; well expressed; well filled; well here; well inhabited; well kept; well laid; well might; well mounted; well paid; well qualified; well represented; well spoken; well they; well used; well worthy; well written