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pestle

verb as in powder

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You can use a mortar and pestle or give the seeds a quick blitz with a grinder.

It was an attractive form of waste, so the team gathered droppings from a nearby farm, ground them into powder with a mortar and pestle and cooked them up—dry, wet, varied temperature, and so on.

She broke open two heads of garlic, smashed the cloves in a mortar and pestle then dumped in spoonfuls of salt mixed with dried oregano and a Puerto Rican spice mix called adobo.

While waiting for the water to boil, in a mortar with a pestle, pound the cloves, cardamom and cinnamon until roughly ground.

Blend them together in a spice grinder or with a mortar and pestle, working in batches, if needed.

All are thrown into a wooden bowl and beaten with a pestle into a colorful plate of food.

So if you have high-quality saffron, you should feel free to grind it yourself with a mortar and pestle.

Put the spices into a pestle and mortar and pound them up with a pinch of salt.

Jack having overpowered her seized her by the hair and beat Baba Yaga with her own pestle.

F'r all ye know, it may be a short note to th' dhruggist askin' him to hit ye on th' head with a pestle.

I leaped at him and struck him a glancing blow with the heavy wooden pestle.

"I do not need advice from you," he growled, his wrinkled fingers grinding the rock pestle savagely against the bowl's contents.

She had got into the habit of relieving herself by an audible gasp each time she drove the pestle down.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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