treacly
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American soundtreacly
treacly
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treac - ly -> treacly
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- ‘Time to head downstairs, but not before I've warned them that if they don't eat their main course, they'll miss out on the treacle tart.’
- ‘A real treat would be a wonderful treacle pudding.’
- ‘But what's money when we've got home made treacle sponge for pudding?’
- ‘Traditional bonfire treats including black peas, baked potatoes, parkin, toffee apples and treacle toffee were also on offer.’
- ‘Well, a rum baba and a treacle tart were atypically heavy.’
- ‘The curd is perfectly complemented by the thick warm brown treacle topping that titillates the palate of dessert lovers anywhere.’
- ‘We're using a Wiltshire wet cure, consisting of beer, salt, black treacle, black peppercorns, juniper berries and saltpetre (according to HFW's recipe).’
- ‘It is then processed, cooked and eaten in various forms ranging from a sticky treacle to a dry bread.’
- ‘To this townie's feet it's like walking through treacle.’
- ‘Make a well in the middle, add the oil, treacle and enough milk to combine and make a soft dough.’
- ‘Don't just use white sugar - adding some muscovado and even black treacle will boost the flavour.’
- ‘More of this and the ice cream will make way for sponge pudding and treacle and my autumn diet will be fully established.’
- ‘They waved us to empty chairs, plonking cups filled with coffee as thick as treacle in front of us - and, completely unperturbed, carried on raising the roof.’
- ‘Mix together the egg, 125g muscovado sugar, treacle, buttermilk and remaining butter until smooth.’
- ‘The brown bread was not wholemeal, but coloured with molasses or treacle.’
- ‘Marinate it for two to four hours in a large cooking pot in two tablespoons of black treacle, a couple of bay leaves, a third of a pint of wine vinegar and three onions, roughly chopped.’
- ‘An innovation confined mainly to Britain was treacle or molasses from sugar cane.’
- ‘For dessert, the three of us shared treacle pudding.’
- ‘A treacle tart is my first choice, then I can eat any leftover at breakfast before everyone else gets up, but a crumbly upside tart would be good, perhaps with figs or apples underneath.’
- ‘Tar clogs your lungs like thick treacle, and a 20-a-day smoker inhales a full cup of tar in a year.’
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