boiled

Example Sentences

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A reboiled three-day-old stock may be safe to eat, but it is now seasoned with millions to billions of dead bacteria and their inactivated toxins.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2011

They would have been all right if they had reboiled the food.

From Time Magazine Archive

She did her best, she asked advice of Mrs. Cornelius, she racked her brain to remember what Hannah did that she left undone, she reboiled, resugared, and restrained, but that dreadful stuff wouldn’t ‘jell’.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Sauces containing the yolks of uncooked eggs cannot be reboiled after the eggs are added.

From Made-Over Dishes by Rorer, Sarah Tyson Heston

It should be examined occasionally, and if it is spoiling should be reboiled with a few peppercorns.

From Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure by Falconer, William