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Parboil   /pˈɑrbˌɔɪl/   Listen
Parboil

verb
(past & past part. parboiled; pres. part. parboiling)
1.
Cook (vegetables) briefly.  Synonym: blanch.






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"Parboil" Quotes from Famous Books



... Parboil the onions for 15 minutes; drain. [Footnote 18: When the water is drained from the onions, there is a loss of nutriment. In cooking onions, however, we usually consider it advisable to lose some food value for the sake of flavor. See "Nutriment ...
— School and Home Cooking • Carlotta C. Greer

... Parboil, drain, cool, and wipe dry one quart of oysters. Make a pint of mayonnaise sauce with aspic jelly and coat the well-dried oysters with the sauce. Prepare a quart of chicken aspic. Dip in half-set aspic the white of ...
— Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties - With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes • Janet McKenzie Hill

... can get, and parboil them very tender, then take off the Pulp and their weight of Sugar, and boil the Sugar and Apricocks together very fast, stir them ever lest they burn to, and when you can see the bottom of the Skillet it is enough; then put ...
— A Queens Delight • Anonymous

... artichokes, 1-1/2 lbs. of tomatoes (or three parts of a tin of tomatoes), 1 oz. of Allinson fine wholemeal, 1 oz. of butter, pepper and salt to taste, 1/2 dozen eschalots. Parboil the artichokes, drain them, and cut them into slices. Make tomato sauce as follows: Chop the eschalots up very finely, slice the tomatoes and stew both in 3/4 pint of water for 20 minutes, adding seasoning and ...
— The Allinson Vegetarian Cookery Book • Thomas R. Allinson

... of paint upon your toilet Will never mend your face, but spoil it, It looks as if you did parboil it: Drink claret. ...
— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift

... No such luck. I came home with a dozen plans for work simmering in my brain; but I must put them back and let them parboil themselves for a while longer. My family are ...
— Phebe, Her Profession - A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book • Anna Chapin Ray



Words linked to "Parboil" :   cooking, blanch, cook, cookery, preparation



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