panful
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panfuls
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If you're caramelizing a panful, frying up some rings, or trying out one of your other favorite onion-forward recipes, that makes sense.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2022
Mihoko told me her husband avoided talking about the war or his experience on Guam, although he did volunteer to cook up a panful of field mice shortly after they married.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2022
The crustiness comes from having a broiling panful of water – or a few ice cubes – in the bottom of the oven to steam the loaf while it cooks.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2020
To their homes the Ogpu frog-marched the protesting nuns, ransacked, found 800 silver ruble pieces, 250 rubles in Tsarist gold coins, "a panful of copper coins" and 515 carats of assorted precious stones.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mama was carrying a panful of live coals to start the fire with.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
I worked at a startup once and watched huge panfuls of food thrown into the garbage practically every day.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2018
The greenhorn scooped up panfuls of clean gold.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thereafter, whenever the moon was not full, Mr. Brown almost daily caused his chef to heat large panfuls of gold and silver coins as hot as possible on the galley stove.
From Time Magazine Archive
The labor was harder than either of them had imagined, and four panfuls of dirt were washed out, leaving nothing but smooth stones behind.
From To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Edward Stratemeyer
He had taken panfuls at random over the bar, and uniformly it gave up coarse gold.
From North of Fifty-Three by Anton Otto Fischer
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