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Definition of Oversweeten
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversweeten
Literary usage of Oversweeten
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Foods and Household Management: A Textbook of the Household Arts by Helen Kinne, Anna Maria Cooley (1914)
"... but many people cannot eat these amounts without more or less irritation of
the stomach. It is a common practice to oversweeten cakes and desserts, ..."
2. A System of Diet and Dietetics by George Alexander Sutherland (1908)
"At the same time it is not advisable to ruin the taste for plain foods by
oversweeten- ing a number of the dishes. Fruits contain a considerable amount of ..."
3. The "Queen" Cookery Books by S. Beaty-Pownall (1904)
"Strain the juice of a Seville orange and a lemon into a basin with sugar enough
to rather oversweeten it. As soon as the sugar is melted pour it into a ..."
4. Sweets. by S Beaty-Pownall (1904)
"Strain the juice of a Seville orange and a lemon into a basin with sugar enough
to rather oversweeten it. As soon as the sugar is melted pour it into a ..."
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