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Before she had done much more than empty out the soup-pot into a smaller vessel to leave on the hearth, and fill the pot with soapy water, the compulsions to clean struck her.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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By this time her soup-pot had soaked enough, so she gave it a good scrubbing inside and out, and put beans to soak in it.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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She surveyed the shelves, and decided that she would clean out her ever-simmering soup-pot and give it a good scrubbing before starting a new batch, while she ate those things that would go bad before long.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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No fire ever burned out for her, and even that ever-cooking soup-pot never scorched.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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Rye and barley-bread was her lot, a great many potatoes roasted in the ashes or boiled and served with nothing but salt and perhaps a bit of dripping, and whatever was left over from the night before put into the ever-cooking soup-pot, sugarless tea made with yesterday's leaves, and a great deal of sugarless porridge.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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She sat, in something of a daze, on a stool beside the kitchen fire, where her prosaic soup-pot full of beans and the end of the ham simmered, and listened to impossible things.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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Almost by return, however, came an ill-spelt scrawl, joyfully accepting the job; and a little later Mrs. Bowman herself got out of the coach, with all her worldly goods tied up in one small cardboard-box, but carrying with her, as a gift, a stringy old hen (fit only for the soup-pot) and half a pound of dairy butter.
Ultima Thule 2003
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Scarce had the cook found his way to a bed in one of the tents when the scullions made for the pup, and had his fat frizzing on the gridiron and his bones dancing in a seething soup-pot.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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Thicken with brown flour; return to the soup-pot, and simmer gently for an hour longer.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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Put two pounds of tripe and four calves 'feet into the soup-pot and cover them with cold water; add a red pepper, and boil closely until the calves' feet are boiled very tender; take out the meat, skim the liquid, stir it, cut the tripe into small pieces, and put it back into the liquid; if there is not enough liquid, add boiling water; add half
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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