Chapter 22 of Standard Paper-Bag Cookery is here in full — 110 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 22 of Standard Paper-Bag Cookery is here in full — 110 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
PASTRY. USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery. Line with a delicate crust, and prick the bottom with a fork. Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars. Cut a cross in the center of a solid crust and turn back the points or prick with a fork.
Chapter 22 of Standard Paper-Bag Cookery is here in full — 110 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/22 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
From this reading “USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery.”
the outer layer of the Earth
From this reading “Line with a delicate crust, and prick the bottom with a fork.”
select by a vote for an office or membership
From this reading “Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.”
cutlery used for serving and eating food
From this reading “Line with a delicate crust, and prick the bottom with a fork.”
a dough of flour and water and shortening
From this reading “PASTRY.”
dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
From this reading “USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery.”
plural of “plate” — (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
From this reading “USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery.”
make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn
From this reading “Line with a delicate crust, and prick the bottom with a fork.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
In this reading “USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery.”
retrace one's course
In this reading “Cut a cross in the center of a solid crust and turn back the points or prick with a fork.”
In this reading “Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.”
In this reading “Cut a cross in the center of a solid crust and turn back the points or prick with a fork.”
put clothing on one's body
In this reading “Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Line with a delicate crust, and prick the bottom with a fork.
an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
From this reading USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Line with a delicate crust, and prick the bottom with a fork.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading Cut a cross in the center of a solid crust and turn back the points or prick with a fork.
a flexible container with a single opening
From this reading USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery.
gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights
From this reading Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.
the lower side of anything
From this reading Line with a delicate crust, and prick the bottom with a fork.
The middle point or core of an area.
From this reading Cut a cross in the center of a solid crust and turn back the points or prick with a fork.
the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
From this reading USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery.
travel across or pass over
From this reading Cut a cross in the center of a solid crust and turn back the points or prick with a fork.
the outer layer of the Earth
From this reading Line with a delicate crust, and prick the bottom with a fork.
separate with or as if with an instrument
From this reading Cut a cross in the center of a solid crust and turn back the points or prick with a fork.
exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
From this reading Line with a delicate crust, and prick the bottom with a fork.
select by a vote for an office or membership
From this reading Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.
any material that fills a space or container
From this reading Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery.
cutlery used for serving and eating food
From this reading Line with a delicate crust, and prick the bottom with a fork.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.
having a pattern of fretwork or latticework
From this reading Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.
a formation of people or things one beside another
From this reading Line with a delicate crust, and prick the bottom with a fork.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Cut a cross in the center of a solid crust and turn back the points or prick with a fork.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery.
a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
From this reading USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery.
a dough of flour and water and shortening
From this reading PASTRY.
dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
From this reading USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery.
plural of “plate” — (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
From this reading USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery.
plural of “point” — a geometric element that has position but no extension
From this reading Cut a cross in the center of a solid crust and turn back the points or prick with a fork.
make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn
From this reading Line with a delicate crust, and prick the bottom with a fork.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.
characterized by good substantial quality
From this reading Cut a cross in the center of a solid crust and turn back the points or prick with a fork.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Line with a delicate crust, and prick the bottom with a fork.
a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
From this reading USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.
the upper part of anything
From this reading Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.
change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense
From this reading Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.
the act of using
From this reading USE tin or agate pie plates for paper bag cookery.
any or all of a kind, it does not matter which
From this reading Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Line with a delicate crust, and prick the bottom with a fork.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Turn in whatever filling you elect to have, and put on top crust or the latticed bars.
Chapter 22 of Standard Paper-Bag Cookery by Emma Paddock Telford holds 110 sentences, grouped into 22 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 22 holds 110 sentences of Standard Paper-Bag Cookery, unabridged, divided into 22 reading sections.
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