Chapter 3 of The Business is here in full — 464 sentences across 93 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of The Business is here in full — 464 sentences across 93 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_Method_ Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream well, add beaten egg and mix. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt. Add the dry ingredients and milk alternately to the first mixture. Mix with as little stirring as possible. VARIATIONS: Add fruit and nuts with dry ingredients.
Chapter 3 of The Business is here in full — 464 sentences across 93 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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in an alternating sequence or position
From this reading “Add the dry ingredients and milk alternately to the first mixture.”
making bread or cake or pastry etc.
From this reading “Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt.”
fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
From this reading “Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt.”
plural of “ingredient” — a component of a mixture or compound
From this reading “Add the dry ingredients and milk alternately to the first mixture.”
mix together different elements
From this reading “_Method_ Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream well, add beaten egg and mix.”
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
From this reading “VARIATIONS: Add fruit and nuts with dry ingredients.”
move as if through a sieve
From this reading “Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt.”
plural of “variation” — an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
From this reading “VARIATIONS: Add fruit and nuts with dry ingredients.”
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.
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any of various powdered mixtures used in baking as a substitute for yeast
In this reading “Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt.”
In this reading “Mix with as little stirring as possible.”
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.
make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of
From this reading _Method_ Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream well, add beaten egg and mix.
in an alternating sequence or position
From this reading Add the dry ingredients and milk alternately to the first mixture.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading _Method_ Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream well, add beaten egg and mix.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Mix with as little stirring as possible.
making bread or cake or pastry etc.
From this reading Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt.
formed or made thin by hammering
From this reading _Method_ Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream well, add beaten egg and mix.
an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
From this reading _Method_ Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream well, add beaten egg and mix.
the best people or things in a group
From this reading _Method_ Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream well, add beaten egg and mix.
free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
From this reading Add the dry ingredients and milk alternately to the first mixture.
animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
From this reading _Method_ Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream well, add beaten egg and mix.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading Add the dry ingredients and milk alternately to the first mixture.
fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
From this reading Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt.
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
From this reading VARIATIONS: Add fruit and nuts with dry ingredients.
in a gradual manner
From this reading _Method_ Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream well, add beaten egg and mix.
plural of “ingredient” — a component of a mixture or compound
From this reading Add the dry ingredients and milk alternately to the first mixture.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Mix with as little stirring as possible.
a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)
From this reading _Method_ Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream well, add beaten egg and mix.
a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
From this reading Add the dry ingredients and milk alternately to the first mixture.
mix together different elements
From this reading _Method_ Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream well, add beaten egg and mix.
(chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding)
From this reading Add the dry ingredients and milk alternately to the first mixture.
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
From this reading VARIATIONS: Add fruit and nuts with dry ingredients.
capable of happening or existing
From this reading Mix with as little stirring as possible.
a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized
From this reading Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt.
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
From this reading Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt.
move as if through a sieve
From this reading Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt.
agitating a liquid with an implement
From this reading Mix with as little stirring as possible.
a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
From this reading _Method_ Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream well, add beaten egg and mix.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Add the dry ingredients and milk alternately to the first mixture.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Add the dry ingredients and milk alternately to the first mixture.
plural of “variation” — an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
From this reading VARIATIONS: Add fruit and nuts with dry ingredients.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading _Method_ Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream well, add beaten egg and mix.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Mix with as little stirring as possible.
Chapter 3 of The Business by Leona A. (Leona Alford) Malek holds 464 sentences, grouped into 93 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 3 holds 464 sentences of The Business, unabridged, divided into 93 reading sections.
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