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Parboil   Listen
verb
Parboil  v. t.  (past & past part. parboiled; pres. part. parboiling)  
1.
To boil or cook thoroughly. (Obs.)
2.
To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
3.
Hence: (Fig.) To do (something) only part way, or incompletely. Also used intransitively.





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"Parboil" Quotes from Famous Books



... about him. The only adipose matter we could obtain from him was by boiling his bones, and the small quantity of oil thus obtained would only fry a few meals of steaks. When that was done we had to fry or parboil them in water. Our favourite method of cooking the horseflesh after the fresh meat was eaten, was by first boiling and then pounding with the axe, tomahawk head, and shoeing hammer, then cutting it into small pieces, ...
— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles
... not tell you to parboil your patient!" exclaimed Traverse, speaking to the old woman. Traverse was shocked to find how perilously his orders ...
— Capitola the Madcap • Emma D. E. N. Southworth
... weather, when the bricks and mortar, the stagnated, oven-like air of the crowded city threatens to bake, parboil, or give the "citizens" the yellow fever, then we are very apt to think of plain Aunt Polly, rough-hewed Uncle John, and the bullet-headed, uncombed, smock-frocked cousins, nephews, and nieces, at their rural homes, amid the fragrant meadows and umbrageous woods; the cool, silver streams ...
— The Humors of Falconbridge - A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes • Jonathan F. Kelley


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


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