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  • His traditional quatres quarts (named four fourths because the original pound cake recipe called for equal parts flour, butter, sugar, and eggs) wants each ingredient at a specific temperature: the eggs, for instance, are at room temperature; the butter is sliced and then creamed while still cold (unless your kitchen is cool); the superfine sugar is chilled in the fridge.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • His traditional quatres quarts (named four fourths because the original pound cake recipe called for equal parts flour, butter, sugar, and eggs) wants each ingredient at a specific temperature: the eggs, for instance, are at room temperature; the butter is sliced and then creamed while still cold (unless your kitchen is cool); the superfine sugar is chilled in the fridge.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • Bref bref donc j'ai modifié trois quatres trucs sur mon CV, fait une super lettre de motivation et j'ai envoyé le tout a l'adresse qu'on m'avait donné!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • Philippe de Novara also discusses a child brought up poorly who becomes a criminal in Les quatres aages de l'home (Paris, 1888). back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Vol. 2 (= PB 2): Les quatres premiers Quodlibets de Godefroid de Fontaines (1904), M.

    Godfrey of Fontaines Wippel, John 2006

  • J'ai quand meme remercier les quatres avec une courbette et un beau sourire colgate avant de descendre du podium et la j'ai eu un mini sourire Buchiesque!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Le probleme des boulimique de litterature c qu'ils se goinfrent de bouquins sans aucun plaisir juste pour degueuler les trois quatres passages retenu par coeur et sans vraiment en connaitre le sens ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2004

  • He told us that twenty chance devils very much feared in our country dwelt there in six different storeys, and that the biggest twins or braces of them were called sixes, and the smallest ambs-ace; the rest cinques, quatres, treys, and deuces.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • He told us that twenty chance devils very much feared in our country dwelt there in six different storeys, and that the biggest twins or braces of them were called sixes, and the smallest ambs-ace; the rest cinques, quatres, treys, and deuces.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • These are formal occasions, but like intimate access, dinners a quatres upstairs, if there were any, they were extremely few.

    Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan 1999

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