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Then take a pressure cooker, add add 3 tbsp ghee and add the cumin seeds, black pepper-corns, onions, and green chillies.
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Then take a pressure cooker, add add 3 tbsp ghee and add the cumin seeds, black pepper-corns, onions, and green chillies.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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Doubts and Queries, Grippit versus Spicer, anent the eviction of an estate ob non solutum canonem; that is, for non-payment of a feu-duty of three pepper-corns a year, whilk were taxt to be worth seven-eighths of a penny
Waverley 2004
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The Bushmen and Hottentots are exceptions to these remarks, for both the shape of their heads and growth of wool are peculiar; the latter, for instance, springs from the scalp in tufts with bare spaces between, and when the crop is short, resembles a number of black pepper-corns stuck on the skin, and very unlike the thick frizzly masses which cover the heads of the
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Add rose petals, a cinnamon stick or ½ teaspoon powdered cinnamon, two drops of vanilla extract or a vanilla bean, and a few bruised pepper-corns to a bottle with vegetable oil not olive.
Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002
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Add rose petals, a cinnamon stick or ½ teaspoon powdered cinnamon, two drops of vanilla extract or a vanilla bean, and a few bruised pepper-corns to a bottle with vegetable oil not olive.
Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002
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Then he threw in whole pepper-corns, half-a-dozen pounds at
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829 Various
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Into a kettle containing a quart of water put a young chicken, one sliced onion, a bay leaf, two cloves, a blade of mace and six pepper-corns.
Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. Clarence E. Edwords
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Those who like the flavor of spice will boil some pepper-corns, mustard-seed, or other spice, _whole_, with the vinegar.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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The fish did not half like it at first; but habit is every thing; and when he showed me his tank, they were swimming about as merry as a shoal of dace: he fed them with fennel, chopped small, and black pepper-corns.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829 Various
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