Kettles
[ketlz]
Examples
- It is next passed to the cooking department and placed in huge steam-jacketed kettles, which revolve continually and thus keep the chicle from scorching. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A fire was burning under a pollard thorn a few paces off, over which three kettles hung in a row. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Tell 'em to put on all the kettles! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You poor little earthenware pipkin, you want to swim down the stream along with the great copper kettles. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My man's gone afield, and the little girl's seeing to the kettles. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The driving engine and shafting are compactly placed at one end or side of the room, with boilers and kettles conveniently adjacent. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- While it is being cooked in these large kettles sugar is added, and as soon as the gum is done it is placed in a kneading machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Only the pure leaf lard, which is supposed to be the choicest fat of the hog, is cooked in these kettles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The kettles revolve until a sufficient coating of the liquid sugar has adhered. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We know that water contains some mineral matter, because kettles in which water is boiled acquire in a short time a crust or coating on the inside. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- To be finished these pieces are sent to a long room containing a line of twelve large white kettles, each on a separate base. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Sheet-iron kettles, tent-poles and mess chests were inconvenient articles to transport in that way. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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