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coddle

[kod-l] / ˈkɒd l /


VERB
boil lightly, usually eggs
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Coddle them with white Wine and Water, and cover them with sliced Pippins in the Codling.

From The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex by Wolley, Hannah

Coddle six large codlings till they are very soft over a slow fire to prevent their bursting.

From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

Ann Coddle was flying up and down the stairs, and calling messages over to Peter in a shrill voice.

From Richard Vandermarck by Harris, Miriam Coles

What would become of the cook, and Ann Coddle?

From Richard Vandermarck by Harris, Miriam Coles

A man was looked on as a milk-sop and a Molly Coddle, that would not take his mug of ale, and be merry with his comrades.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various




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