Word: bollers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assembled in staccato sentences 128 recipes: "The booty that one casual observer in foreign kitchens found practical to bring home and too tempting to leave behind." Each recipe has a catch-eye head- ing?some with snap. Examples: "Pilaf: An Extinct Soup"; "Carme-leis: Swoons in Cream"; "Silde-boller: Hamburger with Fins." Eyes which have been caught but perhaps frightened by pilaf, carme-leis and sildeboller are then directed to a consoling, italicized reassurance: The actual instructions for preparing each dish "... are so constructed that one may read each paragraph, then do as directed, then read the next paragraph...
...cotton boller...
...Boller. Where cotton ripens evenly, all the bolls, open or not, may be taken at once. The new stripping machine is simpler than the picker. Its mechanical fingers simply remove all bolls from the branches brought in by the machine's arms, and drop them...