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  • What if I told you that making cheese required nothing more than a gallon of milk, a few limes and a cheese-cloth — would you believe me?

    queso blanco | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009

  • However if your book is going to continue to be opened and closed as it should be, you will have to ADD a small strip or tube of mull or a cheese-cloth like fabric to the inside of the hollowback before you add more adhesive.

    Dead Bibliobull - get the wiggle out 2008

  • Just get some coffee beans ground or unground doesn't matter, and put them in a sock, or some kind cheese-cloth bag.

    Use A Tea Bag To Freshen Small Spaces | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • With the whole draining and cheese-cloth and whatnot?

    fresh ricotta and red onion pizza | smitten kitchen 2008

  • It's a cheese-cloth of a case—Ten knows he's innocent, of course, as do the cops—but political exigencies dictate a rush to judgment and the attendant need for a quick arrest.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Steven Barnes 2007

  • It's a cheese-cloth of a case—Ten knows he's innocent, of course, as do the cops—but political exigencies dictate a rush to judgment and the attendant need for a quick arrest.

    Kirkus Review Steven Barnes 2007

  • Place a double layer cheese-cloth on a strainer and pour the entire shebang into it.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Mika 2005

  • She almost gave up library work to become one of the young women who dance in cheese-cloth in the moonlight.

    Main Street 2004

  • The cheese-cloth was torn and the blue cotton was moist and reeking.

    More Than Human Sturgeon, Theodore, 1918-1985 1953

  • I was so interested in the colour of the golden rolls in their cheese-cloth coverings that I did not notice Bee's expression until afterward.

    At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell

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