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Example sentences for "wooden spoon"

  • Let the spinach cook 20 minutes, then strain it through a colander, pressing the water out with a wooden spoon or plate.

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  • Blueberry, black raspberry and other sweet juices make excellent dressings for grains instead of milk or cream.

  • Put a can of Babbitt's lye in a tin pail; add to it a quart of cold water, and stir it with a stick or wooden spoon until it is dissolved.

  • Pour it into a bowl and break it fine with a wooden spoon.

  • Beat or rub them to a smooth paste with a wooden spoon, season with salt and pepper and a very little mace; add a beaten egg and about one-half cup of bread crumbs.

  • Mix in with a wooden spoon, a portion of the flour from the surrounding edges of the hole so as to make a thick batter, and having sprinkled dry flour over the top, let it rest for near an hour.

  • Having allotted a pint of the very best white brandy to each pound of peaches, mix it with the syrup, after taking out the fruit with a wooden spoon, and draining it over the kettle.

  • After the mashed potatos are mixed with butter in a deep earthen pan, beat them with a wooden spoon to render them very light.

  • Knead this dough until it is soft and elastic, and free from stickiness.

  • Simmer gently for ten minutes, at the end of which time stir constantly with a wooden spoon, and boil for ten minutes longer, so as to form a soft paste.

  • Break a dozen eggs into a moderate-sized flat saucepan into which you have put two ounces of butter, a pinch of salt and white pepper, and half a glass of milk, stirring all together with a wooden spoon.

  • When slightly cool, remove from sheet with a spatula and roll over the handle of a wooden spoon.

  • Place the sugar in a stewpan over a slow fire until it begins to melt, keeping it stirred with a wooden spoon until it becomes black, when add the water, and let it dissolve.

  • Put the mustard in a bowl and wet with the oil, rubbing it in with a silver or wooden spoon until it is absorbed.

  • Rub the yolks to a smooth paste in a mortar or bowl, with a Wedgewood pestle, a silver or wooden spoon, until perfectly free from lumps.

  • Wash them, rubbing them against one another by stirring around with a wooden spoon.

  • Take them out, mash smooth with the back of a wooden spoon, and add gradually, that it may not lump, a small teacupful of the water in which the head is boiled.

  • A fillet weighing four pounds should be roasted three quarters of an hour in a sharp oven.

  • There are other methods, but this one meets general approval, is not difficult, and agrees with many who cannot possibly eat it when oil is used.

  • Pass forcibly through a fine sieve with a wooden presser, put the residue in a saucepan, warm without boiling, and stir all the while with a wooden spoon.

  • Beat the yolks and dry ingredients until they are very light, with a wooden spoon or with a wire beater.

  • Stir without leaving it, with a wooden spoon, until it boils; the sauce should cover the meat and not be too thick; add a bouquet of herbs, an onion with cloves in it.

  • Take a wooden spoon and, stirring constantly, add the farina little by little.

  • Knead it thoroughly, first with hands and then half an hour more with a wooden spoon.

  • Add by degrees with a wooden spoon 1/4 lb.

  • Adding the sugar, she returned the saucepan to the fire, and while it was coming to the boiling point she stirred constantly with a wooden spoon, so that the sugar would not stick to the bottom and burn.

  • A silver knife, fork, and spoon (or a wooden spoon) were the best articles to use in preparing or stirring the fruit, thus preventing discoloration.

  • Placing the saucepan over the fire, she let the fruit come slowly to the boiling point, stirring with a wooden spoon occasionally.


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


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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