Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "blanch"

  • Do not blanch cherries, sour cherries excepted, berries or plums.

  • Blanch 5 to 10 minutes or until the pod will bend without breaking.

  • Blanch or scald peaches and similar fruits to loosen skin and chill by plunging into cold water.

  • Pare fruit if desired or blanch or scald in boiling water a small quantity of fruit at a time.

  • Blanch by gathering up the leaves and tying them lightly at the tips.

  • They may be made fit for the table with much less labor than the late crop, the shade required to blanch the stalks being much less.

  • I saw his blanch suddenly, even to the lips.

  • God alone knows what that brain must have suffered to blanch hair which had been as black as the wing of a raven!

  • You, in the right of Lady Blanch your wife, May then make all the claim that Arthur did.

  • Blanch the almonds and cut with a sharp knife into thin shavings.

  • Blanch the almonds by pouring boiling water over them and stripping off the skins.

  • That daughter there of Spaine, the Lady Blanch Is neere to England, looke vpon the yeeres Of Lewes the Dolphin, and that louely maid.

  • You, in the right of Lady Blanch your wife, May then make all the claime that Arthur did Dol.

  • Blanch and pound your almonds, beat them very smooth, and mix the sweet and bitter together; do them, if you can, the day before you make the maccaroons.

  • As you blanch the almonds, throw them into a bowl of cold water.

  • Then proceed as above, only blanch the kernels and keep them whole.

  • Blanch the almonds, by scalding them in hot water.

  • Blanch a quarter of a pound of shelled almonds by pouring over them a quart of boiling water, and when the skins soften, rubbing them off with a coarse towel.

  • Shell and blanch a pint of Italian chestnuts, as directed on page 215, and cook in boiling milk until tender.

  • Blanch the nuts according to directions given on page 215.

  • Blanch one and one half ounces of sweet almonds, and reduce them to a paste as directed on page 298; or if obtainable, almondine may be used instead of the prepared almonds.

  • Cut the white part of fine heads of celery into small pieces, blanch in boiling water, turn into a colander, and drain.

  • CHOP the head in halves, and blanch it with the liver, heart, and lights.

  • CUT two young chickens into pieces, and blanch and drain them dry; then put them into a stewpan with two table spoonfuls of currie powder and a gill of veal stock, and stew them gently till half done.

  • Worthy Knight, quoth Phillis, I have heard of thy winning the Lady Blanch from Royal Dukes and Princes, and I am glad to find that Guy is so victorious.

  • Trim the cauliflower and blanch it[F]; put it to boil in boiling water till it is tender; then take up and drain.

  • Trim a nice cauliflower, put it to blanch (note to No.

  • Blanch half a pound of sweet almonds, and two ounces of bitter almonds, and pound them in a mortar, then make them into a paste with rose water; this paste is a fine emollient.

  • Parboil and blanch the sweetbreads, as usual; let them get perfectly cold; cut lengthwise into slices about a quarter of an inch thick.

  • Blanch and pound the almonds, mixing the orange-flower water with them to prevent oiling.

  • Blanch by plunging them for an instant into boiling water, after which lay for five minutes in ice-water.

  • Blanch the almonds, and shred (not pound them), using for this purpose a sharp knife that will not bruise the kernels.

  • Meanwhile, boil the sweetbread fifteen minutes, blanch in cold water; cut into dice, and put into a saucepan with the gravy, which let simmer on the hob.

  • Parboil, blanch and lard, as in preceding receipt.

  • Blanch the almonds by putting them into boiling water, skinning them, and letting them get cold and crisp.

  • Blanch and cut in small pieces four ounces of almonds, which must be beaten up with the eggs and sugar.

  • Next morning, blanch them in cold water, lay them on a clean cloth to dry, and then beat them fine in a marble mortar with a little orange-flower or rose water.

  • Blanch them well and lay in cold water, then take out and dry well.

  • Blanch the almonds, and slice the citron thin.

  • Blanch and pound one pound of sweet almonds with a little rose water; whip the whites of seven eggs to a froth; add one pound sugar; beat some time.

  • Blanch them in cold water all night; then beat them in a Mortar with some of your Cream; and as they grow dry, still put in more Cream; and when they be well beaten, strain the Cream from the Almonds into the Pith.

  • We'll not move a step until you take the rope from that man's neck," said Blanch firmly and unabashed, still holding her ground.

  • She was the old Blanch again; the girl and companion of his youth--the woman of yesterday.

  • Blanch started, the attack was so sudden, her face coloring in spite of her endeavor to conceal her confusion.

  • Since her conversation with Felipe she had noted the attitude of Blanch toward the Captain and her woman's instinct had half guessed the truth.

  • The sound of the clock caused Blanch to pause.

  • Do you imagine," asked Blanch in surprise, "that there is any less of the woman in me because I have been spared the things which you perhaps have been forced to endure, or that one must first suffer before one is capable of loving?

  • Now it so chanced that, at the same hour Don Felipe was conducting Blanch and Bessie to the cañon, Dick was returning to Santa Fé on horseback from his hacienda where he had passed the night.

  • Self-preservation being always our first thought, she had decided to fly, but the presence of Blanch rendered such a course impossible.

  • Blanch turned to speak to Don Felipe, but he was no longer by her side--he had vanished.

  • The Captain was looking for Blanch whom he had seen entering the garden with his mother and the Colonel, but whose return to the house he had not noticed, and he, therefore, walked unsuspectingly into the arms of his uncle.

  • It's charming," replied Blanch in her richest vein of sarcasm, addressing him for the first time since her arrival.

  • Should the leeks happen to be old and strong, it would be better to blanch them five minutes in a gallon of boiling water previous to putting them in the stock.

  • Blanch and pound in a mortar to a smooth paste, a quarter of a pound of sweet almonds, and mix them with the yolks of six hard boiled eggs grated, mid a pint of cream, which must first have been boiled or it will curdle in the soup.

  • The chapel dates from the latter end of the twelfth century, and is in the Transitional Norman style of architecture.

  • Not quite half the distance on the way to Wareham by the main channel, and on the northern shore of the harbour, stands the old-time and picturesque town of Poole.

  • In the following year the town changed hands once more, and suffered very considerably by the severe punishments meted out by the Parliamentarians to some of the inhabitants who had assisted the Royalist cause.

  • A lurid sidelight upon the doings and morals of those times is afforded by the circumstance that the skeleton was ultimately stolen by some sailors and pledged in satisfaction on a drink bill at one of the Gosport inns.

  • There have been mutinies, treasonable firing of the dockyard, and even assassinations in its streets, stirring the inhabitants to the core, and leading at the time to much excitement and gossip.

  • The famous dinners given on the occasion of the signing of the contracts, or the completion of the vessels, were also in the old times given in this room.

  • But with the end of the great French War the prosperity of the place gradually declined; and on the death of Henry Adams, at the great age of ninety-two, the building of ships at Buckler’s Hard fell away.

  • The walls, which are about forty feet in height, are embattled, and pierced for the discharge of arrows and firearms by the defenders.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blanch them; blanched almonds