skimmings

If you have not these, use kitchen grease, that is, the skimmings from pots or what is left from frying, or refuse grease of any kind.

The Young Housewife's Counsellor and Friend: Containing Directions in Every Department of Housekeeping. Including the Duties of Wife and Mother 1875

For entrepreneurs, corruption is both local and personal, composed of any number of transactions, skimmings, gifts, bribes, or extortion.

John Sullivan: The Malik's Answer to Corruption John Sullivan 2010

It is made from the skimmings of a broth containing soy flour, I think, and it is not unpleasant, but when it is called "scum" I do not like it.

Cardiac 2009

Ill health forced him to head back north in 1853, and passing through western Pennsylvania on his way home, he saw something of the primitive oil-gathering industry with its skimmings and oil-soaked rags.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Ill health forced him to head back north in 1853, and passing through western Pennsylvania on his way home, he saw something of the primitive oil-gathering industry with its skimmings and oil-soaked rags.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

On a hard-frozen pond, people were skating: a young girl stood at the edge, and followed their bird-like dartings and skimmings.

Mary Christina 2004

Miranda's house, and the feast I had with the skimmings I took off

Don Quixote 2002

"Wait a bit," said the cook; "sinner that I am! how particular and bashful you are!" and so saying, he seized a bucket and plunging it into one of the half jars took up three hens and a couple of geese, and said to Sancho, "Fall to, friend, and take the edge off your appetite with these skimmings until dinner – time comes."

Don Quixote 2002

Sancho, who never found any pleasure or enjoyment in such doings, retreated to the wine – jars from which he had taken his delectable skimmings, considering that, as a holy place, that spot would be respected.

Don Quixote 2002

And you'd keep the fire going under that pan to get the juice started, and you'd have to skim the skimmings off because it would be real green and foamy skimming.

Oral History Interview with Eunice Austin, July 2, 1980. Interview H-0107. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1980