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double saucepan

noun

  1. a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan US and Canadian namedouble boiler
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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When used, heat it in a double saucepan and apply it with a brush.

It is made with fish, semolina, and onions in a double saucepan which in England is called a steamer. 

One cup of rice should be put on in a double saucepan with three cups of cold water and tightly covered.

Pour into a double saucepan and stir over the fire till the custard thickens; flavour with vanilla to taste.

Beat together the yolks of two eggs and a gill of cream; mix and pour the sauce in a double saucepan; set this in a pan of hot water and whisk thoroughly three minutes.

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