Definition of Parboiling

1. Verb. (present participle of parboil) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Parboiling

1. parboil [v] - See also: parboil

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parboiling

paraxiality
paraxially
paraxis
paraxon
paraxylene
parazoan
parazoans
parazoon
parazygantral
parbake
parbaked
parbakes
parbaking
parboil
parboiled
parboiling (current term)
parboils
parbreak
parbreaks
parbuckle
parbuckled
parbuckles
parbuckling
parc fermé
parcase
parcel
parcel bomb
parcel bombs
parcel of land
parcel out

Literary usage of Parboiling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"It is seen that parboiling has many advantages. It extracts less of the valuable matter from the meat, it shrinks the meat before packing so that the tins ..."

2. The Pyrenees, West and East by Charles Richard Weld (1859)
"parboiling Fowl. — Official Medical Report of Ax. — The Visitors. — Rough Company. — Game. — Charming Scenery. — The Mantis. —Fashionable Promenade. ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"After parboiling, the pieces are packed into cans of the desired size, ... A certain quantity of the liquid resulting from the parboiling is now added to ..."

4. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"The object of parboiling is to secure the shrinkage which always takes place on ... During parboiling, the meat loses about i per cent, of the protein ..."

5. Lost Crops of Africa: Grains edited by F. R. Ruskin (1999)
"Given its now widespread use in the rice industry, parboiling is a surprisingly recent newcomer to commerce. Until the 1930s, it was hardly known outside ..."

6. Microbiology for Agricultural and Domestic Science Students by Charles Edward Marshall, Frederic Theodore Bioletti (1911)
"The object of parboiling is to secure the shrinkage which always takes place ... During parboiling, the meat loses about 1 per cent of the protein content ..."

7. Microbiology for Agricultural and Domestic Science Students by Charles Edward Marshall, Frederic Theodore Bioletti (1911)
"During parboiling, the meat loses about l per cent of the protein content, ... This shrinkage by parboiling tends to make a more concentrated article, ..."

8. Hopi Katcinas Drawn by Native Artists by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1903)
"And when she had finished shelling the corn, she hulled it, parboiling the corn in the water. And when the corn was parboiled, she then poured the grains ..."

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