Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cloth made for straining liquids.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth.
- noun The cloth itself; tammy.
- noun (Zoöl.) a Guinea fowl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A culinary
strainer made fromworsted cloth - noun The cloth itself;
tammy .
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Examples
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A tamis is the best strainer, and if the soup is strained while it is hot, let the tamis or cloth be previously soaked in cold water.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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A tamis is the best strainer, and if the soup is strained while it is hot, let the tamis or cloth be previously soaked in cold water.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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Place a tamis or fine mesh strainer over a mixing bowl.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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They can be baked in molds a classical application straight out of Escoffier, before they had food processors and had to pound the fish and press it through a tamis.
Ratio Michael Ruhlman 2009
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For very refined preparations you may want to press fish mousselines through a tamis, or drum sieve, to remove any fine connective tissue that may not have been pureed.
Ratio Michael Ruhlman 2009
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Using a spatula, press a ¼ of the mixture through a tamis or fine mesh strainer.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Deb, are you straining curd through a chinois or a tamis?
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I would also consider using a puree instead of chunksyou could also pass the puree through a foodmill or tamis or the like and then reduce the liquid you end up with.
Beet Budino No-No 2008
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The manufacturer washes the rags and reduces them to a thin pulp, which is strained, exactly as a cook strains sauce through a tamis, through an iron frame with a fine wire bottom where the mark which give its name to the size of the paper is woven.
Two Poets 2007
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The manufacturer washes the rags and reduces them to a thin pulp, which is strained, exactly as a cook strains sauce through a tamis, through an iron frame with a fine wire bottom where the mark which give its name to the size of the paper is woven.
Two Poets 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word tamis
"the postcard pictures weren't innocent, four women laughing, straining wheat through their wicker tamis in a blond light,"
Invitation to a Voyage by François Emmanuel, translated by Justin Vicari, p 13 of the Dalkey Archive Press paperback
April 12, 2012