yelk
Americannoun
noun
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You may put them into shapes or small tea-cups; egg them with yelk of egg, and brown them very slightly before a slow fire.
From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner
Telolecithal: eggs with the yelk at one end.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
Eggs look very prettily cooked in this way, the yelk being just visible through the white.
From The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous
The yelk of an egg which the cook has just broken, not only yields no sign of mind, but yields no sign of life.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
It has arisen through the accumulation of a store of food-stuff at the vegetal pole, a "nutritive yelk" being thus formed in contrast to the "formative yelk."
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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