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"How can you be so particular about scalding things at home, and then go out to the country and eat unscalded cucumbers?"

From Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries by Williamson, Mabel

Possibly some of the failures come from disregard of this; for the meal which is added after, being unscalded, is not light, and would only clog the cakes.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various