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The mission stories often guide you through a level’s most unique assassinations, which is a nice gift to players who don’t like engaging in the aggressive, save scumming and trial-and-error obsessiveness those never-be-seen challenges require.

From The Verge • Jan. 27, 2021

The next day boil it gently, scumming it all the while till no more scum riseth; and if you will clarifie the Liquor with a few beaten whites of Eggs, it will be the clearer.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne

"There is a brain that will endure but one scumming."

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary

To every pint of juice, add two pounds of powdered loaf-sugar, boiling and scumming it in the same manner as for any other jam or jelly.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

Boil all these together, till the scum be boiled in, not scumming it.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne