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Example sentences for "proper thickness"

  • Let all simmer together for ten minutes, and rub them through a tamis cloth till the soup is of a proper thickness; season it to the palate with salt; make it boil, and serve it up with a gill of cream in it.

  • Let them stew till they are quite tender and almost dissolved; then add crumbs of bread made crisp, sufficient to make it of a proper thickness.

  • Take some old peas, boil them in water, with a sprig of mint and a large lettuce, strain them through a sieve; mix them with your soup till of proper thickness.

  • It does not require much cream to make the puree of a proper thickness.

  • Mix two ounces of butter with flour enough to make a paste, put it with the sauce on the fire, add a tablespoonful of cider vinegar; simmer till of a proper thickness, and use.

  • This is of proper thickness to be mixed at table with flavouring essences, anchovy, mushroom, or cavice, &c.

  • Before you put eggs or cream into a sauce, have all your other ingredients well boiled, and the sauce or soup of proper thickness; because neither eggs nor cream will contribute to thicken it.

  • When the milk tastes of the seasoning, sweeten it enough for the whole; pour into the cream, stirring it well; then give the custard a simmer, till it come to a proper thickness.

  • Then take it out, put in some butter rolled in flour, with a minced lemon, and simmer them to a proper thickness.

  • Then add the almonds, stir it all over a slow fire till of a proper thickness, without boiling, and pour it into cups.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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