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  • The jars, filled with sugar, gin and fruit, need turning regularly until the sugar has dissolved, then tucking away in a dark corner for a couple of months while the magic gets to work.sloes or damsons 900g, washed and picked oversugar 700ggin around 1.5 litres Wipe the damsons, discarding any that are squashy or bruised.

    Nigel Slater's damson recipes 2011

  • But when production lines heat the flavor out of ingredients; when plants buy loads of chemically altered, inferior raw materials to cut costs; when they oversalt and oversugar to pack in cheap taste; when they lay on additives and preservatives to increase shelf life (remember trans fats?); when they process the very life out of food in the name of convenience and affordability, yes, they feed us, but they do not nurture us.

    The Taste Makers 2008

  • a tendency to cookie-cut: that is, to write to a pattern and to oversugar on one side.

    Spotty-Handed Villainesses: Problems Of Female Bad Behaviour In The Creation Of Literature 1994

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