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Example sentences for "mash"

Lexicographically close words:
masculine; masculines; masculinity; mase; masel; mashed; masheen; masher; mashes; mashie
  1. On the third day boil and mash three pounds of potatoes, and stir them into it.

  2. Mash them with the back of a spoon, and mix with them the butter and salt.

  3. Mash a few in bottom of preserving kettle; continue until fruit is used.

  4. Mash beans with back of spoon and add flour which has been mixed with a little cold water; boil five minutes and serve.

  5. For potato soup boil and mash 6 large potatoes, stir into milk, proceed as above, and strain.

  6. For pea soup boil and mash 1 pint green peas and add to sauce.

  7. Potato Cakes Pare and boil 1 quart potatoes; mash and season with salt, pepper and paprika; add 1 tablespoon melted butter; mix lightly.

  8. Put the liver on a plate, and mash fine with the back of the spoon; return it to the water in which it was boiled.

  9. Mash the strawberries, and add half the sugar to them.

  10. Pare the potatoes and boil half an hour; then drain off the water, and mash them light and fine.

  11. Cover a quart of green peas with hot water, and boil, with an onion, until they will mash easily.

  12. Drain off all the water, and mash fish and potatoes together until fine and light.

  13. Cover them with boiling water, and simmer for one hour; take them up, and mash fine.

  14. Mash the vegetables with the back of a spoon, and rub as much as possible through the strainer.

  15. Pare and boil as directed for boiled potatoes, and mash fine and light.

  16. Mash the berries and sugar together, and let them stand two hours.

  17. Mash the livers with a strong spoon, then add bread and milk and the egg, unbeaten.

  18. Drain off all the water, turn the potatoes into the tray with the fish, and mash light and fine with a vegetable masher.

  19. If you have the claws lying flat on the board when you strike, you not only break the shell, but mash the meat, and thus spoil a fine dish.

  20. Pare, boil and mash the potatoes; then add butter, salt and milk.

  21. Drain the water from them, and mash very fine; then mix thoroughly with the fish.

  22. Mash thoroughly with the wire masher, add butter or butterine, salt and milk in about the proportions given for potato in the half shell.

  23. Mash and heat the mixture in the stewpan, and add the egg.

  24. Mash the fruit by stirring it occasionally as it cooks.

  25. Boil and mash the potato, or use cold mashed potato.

  26. Wash and hull berries, sprinkle with sugar, and let stand one hour; mash and rub through a fine sieve, add the gelatin soaked in cold water and dissolved in hot water.

  27. But I'll tell you one thing: I don't talk about the Bible bein' the greatest book in the world, and then go in the woods and lay for a feller to mash his mouth.

  28. I help you learn how to box till you could out-box me, and I guess you can mash my mouth easy enough, Bill.

  29. And I said to myself at the time, 'If Bill knowed that he'd mash your mouth.

  30. Boil three large potatoes until tender, then drain and mash with the cod fish.

  31. Mash them and strain them through cheese cloth.

  32. Mash the yolks of two hard boiled eggs to a paste.

  33. Mash one cupful of strawberries and sweeten according to the acidity of the berry.

  34. Put it in a heavy grain sack and pound and mash until nearly as fine as snow.

  35. Mash the potatoes and while they are hot add the butter, sugar, salt and nutmeg.

  36. Bone sardines and mash them to a paste with lemon juice or oil and spread on thinly sliced bread.

  37. One cup of hot mashed potatoes and one cup of salmon, mash together and form into cakes, put in a beaten egg, roll in bread crumbs or crackers and fry in hot lard.

  38. Cut thin slices of bread, butter it and lay a thin slice of smoked salmon between them, or mash the salmon smooth with minced hard boiled egg and mix with butter to a paste and spread on bread.

  39. Mash one quart of berries, add one and one half cups sugar and the juice of one lemon.

  40. Mash the yolks of hard boiled eggs to a powder and moisten with olive oil and a few drops of vinegar.

  41. Mash this fine and mix with the salt and sugar in the water; let this stand until evening, then add enough well sifted flour to make a stiff batter.

  42. When peas are soft mash through a strainer, add milk and reheat.

  43. To one gallon of fruit allow two gallons of water, mash fruit to get the juice, let stand nine days, then press through a fruit press.

  44. Mash and season with butter, salt, pepper and a little sugar.

  45. Mash berries and rub through a fine sieve, add orange and lemon juice, combine with syrup, strain and freeze.

  46. Pass through ricer or mash with potato masher, and season with butter, salt and a little black pepper.

  47. Mash and rub them through a coarse sieve.

  48. Drain through a sieve until quite dry; return to sauce-pan in which they were cooked, mash thoroughly that there may be no lumps left in potatoes.

  49. Lumps of this mash are placed about the plants to be protected.

  50. An effective poison bait, but one that requires to be carefully handled, owing to its poisonous nature, is a mash made of 6lb.

  51. This mash is spread on the ground invaded by the insects.

  52. After this not another word was spoken, and Noma, who is an industrious housewife, boiled some millet into a mash for a mid-day lunch.

  53. He'll fix you with a hot mash an', after that, anything on the menu from alfalfy to sugar.

  54. I've taught him to mash his pertaters with milk 'stead of water an' to put butter in his hot cakes.

  55. Susy recognizes that when she mentions Sour Mash it is not necessary to localize her.

  56. Sour Mash never gave me any real anxiety; she was always able to take care of herself, and she was ostentatiously vain of the fact; vain of it to a degree which often made me ashamed of her, much as I esteemed her.

  57. Papa says that if the collera comes here he will take Sour Mash to the mountains.

  58. Just then Soar Mash entered the room and Jean believing her hungry asked Mamma for permission to give her the flies.

  59. To Susy, Sour Mash is the Bunker Hill Monument of Quarry Farm.

  60. Fry the milts, and while hot mash with butter, a tablespoonful minced parsley and a teaspoonful of lemon juice.

  61. Boil and peel one quart of large chestnuts and mash with a fork.

  62. Mash well and season with one tablespoonful salt, and a teaspoonful pepper, two tablespoonfuls of white onions minced fine, and cooked in a tablespoonful of butter and a teaspoonful of sage.

  63. Mash all together, add boiling water, to make thick paste.

  64. Mash and season enough hot boiled potatoes to measure two cupfuls, add sauce and fish and beat well with a fork.

  65. Master Mash was the son of a neighbouring gentleman, who had considerably impaired his fortune by an inordinate love of horse-racing.

  66. Master Mash made no answer to this, but by a slap of the face, which Harry returned by a punch of his fist, which had almost overset his antagonist, in spite of his superiority of size and strength.

  67. Nor do I ever see Master Mash or Compton without thinking of the lion's skin, and expecting every moment to hear them bray.

  68. This Master Mash observing, said, "Well, farmer, and what will you subscribe?

  69. He then inquired into the subject of the contest, which Master Mash endeavoured to explain away as an accident.

  70. The unfortunate couple then retreated to the lower end of the room, amidst the jests and sneers of their companions, particularly Mash and Compton, who assumed unusual importance upon the credit of such a brilliant invention.

  71. Then from a basket he takes some prepared food, such as a mash of yams, and throws it on the fire, calling out the name of the ghost and bidding him take his food, while at the same time he prays for whatever is desired.

  72. One unlucky day it happened that some women were pounding a mash with pestles in a mortar, while God stood by looking on.

  73. It remains to find out what the ghost will take to relax his clutch on the sick man, it may be a mash of yams, a fish, a pig, or perhaps a human substitute.

  74. Peel and mash a quart of potatoes, when prepared and cooked.

  75. Prepare and cook by steam a quart and a half of potatoes, peel and mash them; mix with them the yolks of five eggs, half a lemon-rind grated, and four ounces of fine white sugar.

  76. No objection was made, for the still was nearly empty, and arrangements tending to replenishment were beginning to be inaugurated by several of the men, who were examining the mash in tubs in the further recesses of the place.

  77. This was the neighboring miller, also liable to the revenue laws, the distillers being valued patrons of the mill, and since he ground the corn for the mash he thereby aided and abetted in the illicit manufacture of the whiskey.

  78. Care must be taken, however, not to mash the rice grains.

  79. Break and mash the apples with a silver spoon, pour over them a pint of boiling water; cover and let stand until cold; then strain and serve.

  80. Either bake or steam nice sweet potatoes, and when tender, peel, mash them well, and season with cream and salt to taste.

  81. Mash them, and work in four tablespoons of flour and two of sugar.

  82. When the potatoes are tender, mash all through a colander.

  83. Cook and mash perfectly smooth, potatoes to make a cupful.

  84. Boil the yolks of three eggs until dry and mealy, mash perfectly smooth, then add a cup of boiling milk.

  85. Pare and stone some nice yellow peaches, and mash with a spoon or press through a colander with a potato masher.

  86. Mash carefully selected, ripe cranberries thoroughly in an earthen dish, and pour boiling water over them.

  87. Mash through a colander, add a little sugar and a little grated pineapple or lemon peel.

  88. Boil until tender, serve in the shell, or scrape out the soft part, mash and serve with two largo tablespoonful of cream to a pint of squash.

  89. Bake the squash in the shell; when done, remove with a spoon and mash through a colander.

  90. Cook until perfectly tender; turn into a colander and press out the water with a plate or large spoon; mash until free from lumps, season with a little sweet cream, and salt if desired.

  91. Open a can of green corn, turn it into a granite-ware dish, and thoroughly mash with a potato-masher until each kernel is broken, then rub through a colander to remove the skins.

  92. Sweet Potato Custard: Boil tender two large or four medium sweet potatoes, peel, free of strings, and mash fine.

  93. In making sardine sandwiches, boil the eggs hard, mash the yolks smooth while hot, softening them with either butter or salad dressing--French dressing of course.

  94. Boil soft two large or four small sweet potatoes, mash smooth while very hot, free of strings and eyes, add a pinch of salt, then rub well through three cups of sifted flour.

  95. A grain should mash between finger and thumb.

  96. Pick up the chicken and grind the meat fine, then mash it well together with the brains or sweetbreads, and season to taste.

  97. Gooseberry Wine: Wash and drain dead-ripe gooseberries, mash them thoroughly with a wooden pestle, and add their own bulk of boiling water.

  98. The rehearsals had been crowned with success, and when the cow came on the stage she got a bouquet, and made a bran mash on one of the ushers.

  99. But when I thought what a long, hard trip it would be, and how I would probably mash that bracket on the cars before I got half way there, I gave it up.

  100. Nothing gives him greater satisfaction than to chase it up a tree or mash it between two shingles.

  101. If you want to wear a Mother Hubbard dress on the throne during hot weather, or mash a mosquito with your mother's sceptre, do so.

  102. Mash and sweeten one cupful of the strawberries, put on one layer, then place second layer on top.

  103. Return to pan and add 3 tablespoons Crisco, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1 saltspoon white pepper, beat and mash them well together, when thoroughly hot turn into vegetable dish and serve.

  104. When wanted for clear soups the vegetables should be cleaned, but not cut up, or with the long cooking they may mash and thicken the soup.

  105. Mash potatoes by rubbing them through wire sieve with back of wooden spoon; dissolve Crisco, add it to potatoes with 1 of eggs well beaten and seasonings.

  106. Dish up meat in circle on flat dish, put potatoes and onions in center, leaving 1 potato in saucepan, to mash and thicken the gravy a little, pour gravy over stew, and sprinkle with parsley.

  107. Mash and season with Crisco, salt and pepper to taste.

  108. Salt and pepper to taste Chop onion and cabbage and mash potatoes.

  109. It contained two large stills, with mash tubs and every appliance, two or three hundred kegs of whisky, and some thirty sacks of barley.

  110. Mash enough bananas to make two cupfuls of pulp.

  111. Then take out the ears, cut off the grains and chop very fine, or mash in a mortar.

  112. Mash some clean ripe raspberries to a pulp, and allow to stand over night.

  113. Cut four hard-boiled eggs in two, lengthwise, remove the yolks and mash with a fork, in a bowl.

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

  115. Mash the liver in a salad bowl, add the yolks of two raw eggs, one ounce of sweet butter, and strain through a fine sieve.

  116. Put them on to cook, and when they become hot mash them.

  117. Mash in mortar a peck of well-washed spinach.

  118. In a mortar mash equal parts of chives, chervil and parsley.

  119. For four persons take four ounces of Roquefort cheese, put in salad bowl and mash well with a fork.

  120. Mix a boxful of smoked Norwegian sardines with three ounces of hot butter, mash fine, and force through a sieve.

  121. When quite dry mash fine, mix with the yolks of two eggs, salt and pepper.

  122. Mash the fruit well, and boil it for twenty minutes.

  123. Mash the trimmings well in a mortar, pass through a sieve, add one egg, season with salt and pepper, make into small round balls, and boil in fish broth for three minutes.

  124. Come on, Joe--we must gallop right through and mash their heads with our sticks as we pass.


  125. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abrade; assemblage; assortment; barbecue; barley; beat; bran; breakfast; bruise; butter; case; chew; chop; clambake; clutter; conglomeration; corn; crumb; crumble; crush; cushion; diner; dinner; disintegrate; ease; ensilage; feed; flour; fluff; fodder; forage; fragment; gentle; grain; granulate; grate; grind; hash; hay; infatuation; jumble; jungle; knead; loosen; lunch; luncheon; macerate; magpie; mash; massage; masticate; meal; medley; melange; mellow; mess; mill; miscellany; mix; mollify; mush; oats; olio; paste; pasturage; pasture; patchwork; pestle; picnic; pith; plaster; plump; porridge; potpourri; poultice; pound; powder; press; provender; pudding; pulp; pulverize; relax; rummage; salad; sauce; scramble; scratch; scrunch; shard; shred; shuffle; silage; slops; smash; soften; split; sponge; squash; stew; straw; subdue; supper; swill; tea; trifle; tumble; wheat


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    mash them; mashed potato; mashed potatoes