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  • verb Present participle of macerate.

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Examples

  • Varenye Russian-style jam There is nothing particularly Russian about this technique of macerating the fruit with sugar in advance, but the result is just about right.

    Beyond Blini Edward Schneider 2011

  • Appreciation, too, for those who suggested freezing my damsons and sloes before macerating them in the alcohol rather than pricking them by hand.

    Nigel Slater's damson recipes 2011

  • With this recipe, the rum or brandy is used for macerating the fruit rather than saturating the cake after baking.

    The Food Matters Cookbook Mark Bittman 2010

  • Authentic rosé is instead made by macerating red grape skins to give pale wine a blush.

    The French Menu for a Consumer Society Christina Passariello 2010

  • Wherever getting clean is involved, a sacred element never lags far behind; they say, for example, that among advanced yogis the practice exists of excreting the bowel and macerating it in milk to cleanse it.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • Wherever getting clean is involved, a sacred element never lags far behind; they say, for example, that among advanced yogis the practice exists of excreting the bowel and macerating it in milk to cleanse it.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • Absinthe is made by macerating herbs and spices, including anise and fennel, with the grand wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) that gives the drink its name.

    Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder 2010

  • Authentic rosé is instead made by macerating red grape skins to give pale wine a blush.

    The French Menu for a Consumer Society Christina Passariello 2010

  • Authentic rosé is instead made by macerating red grape skins to give pale wine a blush.

    The French Menu for a Consumer Society Christina Passariello 2010

  • Authentic rosé is instead made by macerating red grape skins to give pale wine a blush.

    The French Menu for a Consumer Society Christina Passariello 2010

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