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An animal odor and a stench of rancid oil pervaded the place.
Cried Arnold, tickled by the metaphor: "rancid fur!"
It was adopted by men largely engaged in "rendering" fatty substances for use in pharmacy and for other purposes for which the fat was required to be as free as possible from flavor and not unduly subject to become rancid.
Do we commend an Eskimo for preferring the flavor of rancid fish oil to the delicate bouquet of the finest French wine?
On account of the large proportion of fatty matter contained in maize, it acquires, if kept for some time and unpleasant, rancid taste, occasioned by the usual change which takes place in fat when exposed to the atmosphere.
If defeat befell them, then the butter and other produce were rancid or stale.
As they filed out, I noticed Uncle Lance pick up my saddle and throw it across his shoulder, while Theodore gathered up the rancid blankets and my fancy bridle, taking everything with them to the house.
The woman also continued stirring the contents of the kettle, till they were brought to a thick consistency; the stones were then taken out, and the whole was seasoned with about a pint of strong rancid oil.
Slices of potato fried in rancid lard will in a great measure absorb the unpleasant taste.
Strong, rancid mutton feels spongy, and does not rise again easily, when dented.
Grimaldi states that it is as of rancid butter; others say it resembles chloroform.
There was a rancid sneer in Pierce's insinuation.
Oil made toward the close of the harvest in April or May from extremely ripe fruit is of a very pale straw color, mild and sweet to the taste, though sometimes, if the fruit has remained too long on the trees, it may be slightly rancid.
There are other sacs lying directly behind the castor glands which contain a strong oil of rancid smell.
He had rather overdone the matter of the rancid oil.
The flavor is rich but the nut being oily soon becomes rancid.
Rancid butter melted down in pots, honey, dates, figs, raisins, and one or two similar items form the remainder.
There are a good many of our hickory nuts that turn rancid in six months.
The air was rancid with the odor of wet, steaming clothing.
The rancid smell of bedding struck his sensitive nostrils from within.
His frizzy locks are generally clotted with rancid butter, his slender garment is not over clean.
Taking off the heavy leads, two of the lines were baited with pieces of rancid pork and allowed to tow astern.
Then he attacks anew the hard, stale bread, the rancid bacon, and devours it to the last morsel.
The meat was dry and stringy, with a disagreeable, strong flavor that savored intimately of the rancid odor of the den.
The natural amount of moisture in them is reduced, the air enters, oxidation takes place and the flavor becomes rancid.
They taste good in my mouth after all these years of rancid melodrama.
Several yards away, as we returned, let us say from dinner, our nostrils were assailed by rancid air.
Long ones are not good; and the best, if not carefully shelled, are apt to be a little rancid on account of the gall.
A pungent reek of some kind of rancid fat or oil assailed his nostrils.
She was very dirty and smelt abominably of some kind of rancid oil.
"With a good dollop of rancid camel butter right on top."
If not properly stored, this cheese soon dries and becomes rancid or tasteless.
A rancid whiff came to Stan and reminded him that his own fuel tank was on fire.
Just for the refreshment of it, I mean, and to take the rancid taste out of our mouth.
They are rancid and fishy.
The urine of the wolf, bottled and kept until it has become rancid, is a very good scent, and the sexual organs of the female, taken when in heat, added to the urine, makes it far more attractive to the male.
I had on the end of my fork only a great piece of rancid, glutinous, infected yellow bacon.
Rancid mutton fat, an inch thick, frosts a bushy wig of cauliflower growth, which harbors myriads of vermin.
The oil with which he was partly covered had turned rancid, now, and the odor attracted them, connoisseurs of the fetid.
It is generally rancid and unfit for European consumption.
Non-drying ones, as olive, do not solidify, but develop acids and become rancid after some time.
The air here feels so thick, so buttery (so like rancid butter).
It was a little oily and rancid, but this was not the time to be too particular.
To these must be added a curious inclination to store enormous masses of pollen, often far in excess of what is required; with the result that the pollen soon turns rancid and goes solid, blocking up the surface of the comb.
It is especially adapted to the needs of the druggist, because it does not become rancid.
There was an odor of rancid butter, spilled wine, and paraffin oil.
Rancid sardines, to be swallowed fin and scale, head and tail.
The recounting of his story had been in some measure a relief, although the old taste of rancid memory remained.
The first fault comes from weak etching or from oil that was rancid when it was used to prepare the varnish.
It is slightly antiseptic and does not become rancid.
Her husband was jovial and familiar, and the butler had a face like a rancid ham and a surreptitious manner.
Even yet a tiny warning came as he sniffed their rancid, noxious aura.
It not only remains free of insect infestation, it doesn't become stale (meaning rancid).
If you think wheat goes rancid rapidly, rye is even worse.
Rolled oats become stale and lose their flavor (and nutritional content) and perhaps become rancid very rapidly.
Quite young infants, babies, indeed, are often fed upon salt fish, rancid bacon, impure milk.
A rancid smell of fried butter emanated from the kitchen.
It will keep fresh and sweet under conditions that turn lard and butter rancid.
They greased their hair liberally with buffalo fat which, when rancid, emitted an unpleasant odor.
It proved to be dried beans and corn cooked with rancid tallow!
It is only after it has been kept for a long time that it begins to taste rancid and fishy.
Dried meat will keep but one year if free of wet, as afterwards the fat turns rancid and the lean tasteless.
Most of the bacteria that are left in the butter soon die, not finding there a favorable condition for growth; some of them, however, live and grow for some time and are prominent agents in the changes by which butter becomes rancid.
The castor oil should also be as fresh as possible and, under no conditions, rancid.
A disadvantage of the tallow bandage is its becoming rancid.
To Sweeten Rancid Butter.
It does not become gummy or rancid, and retains its viscosity at high temperatures.
It is not rancid, has no decided flavor, but still is unpleasant when eaten raw, as with salads or sardines.
He had submitted to the repellent fare, the vegetables cooked in half rancid oil, coarse bread and gritty coffee.
A whiff of rancid lard and ripe cheese caught Carmela by the throat and made her cough.
Fats, by exposure to the air, become rancid, and in this state are exceedingly obnoxious to the digestive organs.
Rancid butter and high-seasoned food are equally unwholesome.
The butter was rancid, the eggs were overdone, the ham was too salt.
Their contents had the appearance of hog's lard, which had been melted and become rancid.
Pure tallow is white and tasteless, but much of that sold is yellowish and of a disagreeable, slightly rancid flavor.
If the heel is uncooked, boil till half done, then throw the first water away, or the jelly will be too rancid for soup.
It then has somewhat the appearance and taste of stale buttermilk and a rancid smell.
This did certainly fatten them, but the fat was rather rancid in most cases, and never of good flavor.
They had delved deep into his history before he came to them and found that he had a rancid past.
After it had stood for a few days it turned rancid, and she had to throw it out to the hogs.
Now if we hold the above considerations in view we can readily see that cast iron, wood and glass, with joints of wash leather (which is kept soft by a wax cement which does not become rancid with age), are the preferable materials.
It somewhat resembled rancid butter mixed with crumb of bread.
The plots of the pictures were as trite and as rancid as spoiled meat, but they suited the market.
Their tins of margarine were always rancid and later on I will tell you what they were used for.