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On the continent it is occasionally employed as a substitute for olive oil in cooking; but it is apt, under such circumstances, to become rancid.
The smell of rancid oil choked them, yet they could breathe without coughing, and could rest their smarting eyes.
It is half liquid, transparent without smell, and so pure that it may be kept above a year without becoming rancid.
"A man wouldn't have sense enough to know that smoking isn't worth waking up with your mouth full of rancid fur."
Every man washed his saddle blankets, as the long continuous ride had made them rancid with sweat.
The sweet milk turned out to be nothing but sour camel's milk, full of dirt and sand; and the fat was in small quantities, and very rancid.
Having done so, he would lie down, and eat, and eat, and eat, till there wasn't a sheep left, except a few old rancid ones; and even those he would tear into small spring lambs.
The river had quit flowing, and with the first warmth of spring the pools became rancid and stagnant.
Graham flour, for one thing, does not keep so well as flour of lower extractions, as the fat in the germ may become rancid in a comparatively short time.
You must not allow your ideas to grow rancid in the provinces; put yourself into communication at once with the great men who represent the nineteenth century.
The large amount of fatty matter makes it difficult to keep much meal on hand, as it grows rancid and breeds worms; and it is best that it should be ground in small quantities as required.
They rub their bodies all over with rancid grease, which gives them a very bad smell, so that you may nose them at a considerable distance.
It should thus be left for about two weeks, at the end of which time a rancid oil will have formed.
The nuts have a fine flavor and the unusual quality of retaining this flavor without becoming rancid, for three years.
Hickory nuts have been a favorite of mine since I first tasted them and I often have found it difficult to procure fresh ones, ones that were not slightly rancid.
Large quantities of butter, generally rancid, are made from the milk of cows, goats and sheep.
If thoroughly dried they will not mold, but if kept in too warm a place they will turn rancid.
Not to be too near our subjects (for they were rather noisy, and smelled pretty strong of rancid fat), we had placed our tent about two hundred feet away from their huts.
The men drank the last of some rancid vegetable oil which had been intended for the camels.
On standing for some time, especially when exposed to sunlight, it undergoes a slight decomposition and acquires a most disagreeable, rancid odor.
The germ is rich in oil and is excluded from the flour mainly because it has a tendency to become rancid and to impart to the flour poor keeping qualities.
It is half liquid, transparent, without any smell, and so pure that it may be kept above a year without becoming rancid.
Sometimes, in order to make the olives grind the more easily into a paste, and part with more oil, they are mixed with a little hot water: but the oil thus procured is apt to grow rancid.
To protect themselves from the biting cold they smear their faces with rancid butter, which, catching the smoke and dust, adds to the effectiveness as well as the strength of the odor.
A little rancid oil, shark, or any other half-putrid fish, a few olives, sour wine, and bread, and they are well feasted.
I kept thinking it was pretty funny looking stuff for Pond's Extract, but I thought perhaps it was rancid.
It can be mixed with drugs without changing their character, and it does not become rancid.
I find it hard to believe that it can do me good to have people live with me who like rancid butter, and who disagree with me in everything else.
It is singular that in a pastoral country like Norway one gets nothing but rancid butter, and generally sour cream, where both should be of the finest quality.
A little rancid oil and a few vegetables are sufficient to sustain life, and these can be had by a few hours labor in the cool of the day.
When fresh its odor is agreeable, but it easily becomes rancid and assumes a most disagreeable odor.
I have had good success with rancid fish oil, mixed as thoroughly as possible with water and sprayed upon the plants.
She poured coffee for herself, diluted it with hot water, buttered a slice of toast with composure, tasted it and complained that the grocer had sent rancid butter.
This is perhaps the most convenient form in which to buy them, but unfortunately, they are too frequently old and rancid.
One difficulty in taking them away from their original home to plant is that the seeds are so rich in oil as to become rancid unusually soon.
It is well known, that butter as it is generally cured, does not keep for any length of time, without spoiling or becoming rancid.
The English girl had milk with her coffee and some slices of bread spread with rancid butter.
We have seen the beauty of a boil spoiled scores of times by using dirty rags and rancid oil.
To afford a popular flavor and attract the mob, he adds a steady current of what I may be allowed to call the rancid.
He took his seat in a corner near the door and ate the slightly rancid fish without any complaint, while, on the other hand, he left the wine untouched after having taken a sip.
When put by, it is carefully covered up, because if the cold air gets to it afterwards, it turns of a yellow color and becomes rancid.
Meanwhile, of course, I must not move, and am in a rancid box here, feeling the heat a great deal, and pretty tired of things.
They were conducted into the presence of a man who was sitting on the bare ground, with a yellow leather cap on his head, eating rancid bacon and raw beans.
Sweet butter, butter without salt, is less apt to be old when purchased than the salted variety, as the flavor of rancid fat is unmistakable in butter which has not been especially treated.
The percentage of free acid in this oil varies greatly, though the oil does not turn rancid easily.
An acid and rancid fat is one in which both free acid and organic compounds of the well known disagreeable odors have been produced.
Rancid fats form darker soaps than fats in the neutral state, and very often carry with them the disagreeable odor of a rancid oil.
At first Arthur instinctively drew back, half choked by the stench of raw hides and rancid oil.
No wonder the coffee tasted bitter, and that the bacon was too salt, while he thrust the butter away as rancid, and the bread as being dry.
Such foods as would freeze in cold weather, decay, become rancid, or otherwise spoil if kept a long time without special care, had to be kept out of the list.
It swung back, to release the odor of incense and rancid butter and to admit Trent and the Tibetan into a vast space that evidently was a temple.
The effect is only temporary, however, as in a few days the stuff becomes rancid and the odor it gives off is something frightful.
When they become old decomposition takes place, and acid is set free, by which action, as is commonly said, the oils become rancid.
When they become old, decomposition takes place and the acid is set free, by which action the oils become rancid.
They smear themselves with rancid butter, which serves to render them most offensive to people of a delicate sense of smell.
Milk was supposed to become sour and butter rancid because they are unstable organic compounds, liable to change in the presence of the oxygen of the air.
Continue cutting your ham in this way, and you will be able to eat it all; whereas, in any other way, all the lean will be eaten, and a large quantity of fat, which will become rancid, will be lost.
Locally, they find their way to market, but they soon become rancid in the grocer's barrel.
Still, it was not rancid; and on examining it I found it was cedar oil, and that it still exhaled something of its original aroma.
The milk turns sour, the butter is rancid, the cattle pine away; and all from no apparent cause.
A very narrow escape, too, for some rancid butter, of which the cook had been liberal, puts me in bodily fear.
If you do not live in a place where nice fresh butter is to be obtained, endeavor to do without butter at all, rather than use that which is strong, rancid, or too salt.
It is equally wholesome, and while it does not have the same rich flavor, it has the advantage that it keeps better, and is not so liable to become rancid or strong.
Garlic is the favorite flavor, and the bad oil expressed from the olive, skin, seed and all, allowed to stand until it is rancid, is beloved of the Spanish, but hated by all other nations.
He scraped gum from his legs with the fish, smearing the rancid oils all over them in the process.
The butter was rancid and full of dead flies, and the bread appeared to have been cast upon the waters.
He would walk backward and draw anything that had a rancid smell a mile or so from where he found it.
Those who had not been admitted to treatment were supplied with coarse bread, cheese, rancid butter, and (very seldom) a little meat.
There was a strong rancid smell about the spot, and the earth and the branches were thickly covered with grease.
The steward supplied each mess with a daily allowance of biscuit, pork or beef, and rancid butter.
This is a very delicate and characteristic dish, but will be a failure if the vine leaves are not tender or the oil is rancid.
Actually, high quality fresh (not rancid) butter in moderate quantities is about the finest fat a person could eat.
Once you've tasted real bread you'll instantly see by comparison what stale, rancid whole wheat flour tastes like.
From all this there arose inconceivable odors, something between rancid butter and spoiled fish.
The nuts get rancid if kept warm and should be marketed as soon as dry or kept stored in the cold and eaten before spring.
This latter is good for cooking, but one cannot eat it on one's bread, owing to its rancid taste, even when freshly made.
Great care must be taken that everything is clean and that the oil does not become rancid, or it will all be spoiled.
Rancid fats made edible Fats may become rancid; this is caused by the decomposition of fat due to its uniting with the oxygen of the air.
They have a nasty way of contrasting it with the nonsense which their boys tell them about tough meat and rancid butter.
The hunters and the rest of the band would stay at this spot until all the meat was exhausted, rancid as it might become.
Everything was scented with garlic, and when the flavor of that questionable delicacy was absent it was replaced by the taste of rancid oil.
When fresh, they are highly esteemed for their rich flavor; but they become rancid in a short time from the great quantity of oil they contain.
He didn't at all mind the disorder and rancid smell of the cage; he had no fear of the tiger's sleek murderous power.
Besides, everything is dear, and proper nourishment is difficult to get when the stomach cannot stand either rancid oil or pig's grease.
It is also of great importance on account of its property of preventing fats from becoming rancid, if added to them in small quantities.
Vaseline oil, which is cheap and does not become rancid, is also at present much used as hair oil.
The rest of the party sat round a rude table, much hacked with knives, and had tea, bread, and rancid butter for their meal.
Seven days afterwards the mare is made to swallow a pound or a pound and a half of rancid butter not salted.
For three days in succession we had been given salt butter of a rather rancid kind, instead of fresh butter as had been supplied before.
Many of these are apt to spoil, or become rancid; and as they are then no longer fit for medical use, no very large quantity of them should be collected at a time.
Many an otherwise nice cake has been spoiled by oiling the pan in which it was baked with dirty or rancid grease.
A piece of charcoal will remove a rancid taste, put into the melting fat, and stirred round a few minutes.
Preserve, on the contrary, for some time the bones of an adult, you will observe that their marrow turns rancid, and becomes of a deep yellow color, like all fat that has been some time kept.
If kept too cold, the butter will not "come;" and, if too hot, the butter will be soft, and will soon become rancid.
Humor, of which he has plenty, is no doubt the salt of life, but all his humor has gone rancid.
Again, if this rancid secretion is allowed to remain it becomes absorbed, and then you have another poison in your system.
Most fats are liable to become rancid by exposure to the air, acquiring a disagreeable taste and smell, and an acid reaction from the liberation of the fatty acids.
In spite of the smell of rancid oil and tar we are quite content because we are dry, and so we sit up till two in the morning.
I have often seen what was bought for butter open so marbled, streaked, and rancid, that it was scarcely fit to use on the wheels of a carriage.
Neither will butter pass through the hard surface: it will remain on it, and if exposed to heat, to melt it in, it will dissolve, and run over it in the form of rancid oil.