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- noun Plural form of
marrowfat .
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Examples
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Let it all boil till the vegetables are tender, and about half an hour before the soup is sent to table throw in, while the soup is boiling, half a pint of fresh green peas -- those known as marrowfats are best, -- and about five minutes before sending the soup to table throw in a spoonful (in the proportion of a dessertspoonful to every quart) of chopped, blanched parsley -- _i. e.
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet A. G. Payne 1867
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Young peas, 10 to 15 minutes; the large sorts, such as marrowfats, &c., 18 to 24 minutes; old peas, 1/2 hour.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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Young peas, 10 to 15 minutes; the large sorts, such as marrowfats, &c., 18 to 24 minutes; old peas, 1/2 hour.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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Sowing-time came for early peas and marrowfats in early
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I got them fixed into the softest of that bunch of marrowfats.
South Wind Norman Douglas 1910
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Peas are always fine, especially the marrowfats, which are sometimes grown in the fields, on cleared lands that are under the plough.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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From the marrowfats I obtained only four pecks and a half, and no seed.
Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers Solon Robinson 1841
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The marrowfats were six and a half feet high, the stems from one to one and a quarter inch in circumference.
Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers Solon Robinson 1841
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Recommended populations were 65 plants / sq m for marrowfats, 70 / sq m for large blues and whites and 75-110 / sq m for small blues.
FWi - All News 2008
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An Amistar +Bravo mix was a good solution, although the second spray on marrowfats and late-maturing varieties might need to give powdery mildew protection.
FWi - All News 2008
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