Mr. ROBERTSON: Bdellium, it's a - it's a gum-like tree resin. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If the problem was that they ended up being too gumy, my Italian grandma makes the best potato gnocci ever and she always says you should add as little flour as possible, otherwise you´ll end up with gum-like gnocci. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Chew on a small piece of dough, and it becomes more compact but persists as a gum-like, elastic mass, the residue that the Chinese named “the muscle of flour” and that we call gluten. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)
Opium is a gum-like substance, the dried juice of the unripe capsule of the poppy. ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)
But no special constituents have been discovered in the root besides a peculiar sugar, a gum-like principle, _triticin_, and some lactic acid. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)
If a mouthful of wheat is chewed for some time, most of it is dissolved and swallowed, but there remains in the mouth a sticky, gum-like substance. ❋ Francis M. Walters (N/A)
Moist gum-like tears drop from this mournful tree; ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
When dry starch is heated to 400° Fahr., it is converted, without any change in its composition, into a soluble gum-like substance, termed _dextrin_, or British gum. ❋ Charles Alexander Cameron (1875)
The grain is by mere torrefaction converted into a gum-like substance, wholly soluble in water, which renders the beer more liable to pass into the acetous fermentation than the common brown malt is capable of doing; because the latter, if prepared from good barley, contains a portion of saccharine matter, of which the patent malt is destitute. ❋ Friedrich Christian Accum (1803)
The quantity of gum-like matter which it contains, gives too much ferment to the beer, and renders it liable to spoil. ❋ Friedrich Christian Accum (1803)
This fraud may readily be detected by evaporating a quantity of the liquor in a table-spoon over a candle, to dryness; the sugar will thus be rendered obvious, in the form of a gum-like substance, when the spirit is volatilised. ❋ Friedrich Christian Accum (1803)
The first commercial chewing gum, made of the gum-like resin that formed on spruce trees when they were cut, was sold in the United States in the early 1800's.
Initially you should taste your beautiful homemade bread, followed by a sweet taste which is the remaining starch being turned into sugars by an enzyme in your saliva, and then, after almost everything else has gone, a chewing gum-like mass forms in your mouth. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Many other cultures have chewed gum-like substances made from plants, grasses, and resins. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Ancient Mayans utilized a gum base, chicle, for making a gum-like substance. ❋ Unknown (2009)
That's a bubble gum-like flavor that I'm not such a big fan of. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"For each silkworm has coated the inside of his little home with a gum-like substance that makes it waterproof. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)
