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Definition of Overcooks
1. overcook [v] - See also: overcook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcooks
Literary usage of Overcooks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food and Feeding by Henry Thompson (1901)
"Instead of the orthodox twenty minutes allotted to average asparagus lying
horizontally, in the English manner, which half cooks the stalk, and overcooks ..."
2. The Natural history of digestion by Alexander Lockhart Gillespie (1904)
"Treatment of the meat with water at the boiling point throughout the process
overcooks the outer part before the inner part has had time to become ..."
3. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1881)
"Instead of the orthodox twenty minutes »Hotted to average asparagus lying
horizontally, which half cooks the stalk and overcooks the head, diminishing its ..."
4. The Westminster Problems Book: Prose and Verse by Westminster Gazette, London, Westminster Gazette, Naomi Gwladys Royde-Smith (1908)
"Strange, is it not, that Something now Insistent in the Dome of Sorrow Catches
the Hare that drives the plough, And overcooks it on the morrow : " And ..."
5. Handy Household Hints and Recipes by Wehrley, Mattie Lee (1916)
"One reads countless recipes for making boiled frosting, but I have yet to see
one which advises the novice what to do in case she overcooks her frosting, ..."
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