albumen

Example Sentences

• "Coordinate term: yolk"
• "[A]gglutinants of all kinds were called into use, as tragacanth, gum arabic, and the albumen of eggs; and these were united with astringents, as rhubarb, cinnamon, and lime-water, with or without an anodyne draught at evening as might be thought prudent."
• "Useful Invalid Foods. Albumen Water.—Cut the white of one fresh egg in numerous directions with scissors, shake it up in a bottle with six ounces of pure cold water and a pinch of salt and strain through muslin. Useful for infants with acute gastro-intestinal trouble, when milk must be withdrawn."
• "Beautiful fresh eggs, boiled gently to perfection, are a true gourmet experience. The albumens (whites) will be tender and slightly 'curdy', the yolks still soft and silky."
• "The cheeſe, or caſeous part of milk, is formed into a maſs, and ſeparated from the other parts of the liquid, by the action of fire, by the acid fermentation of vvhich milk is liable, and by the intermixture of acids. This matter, vvhen vvell vvaſhed, is vvhite and ſolid, like the albumen of the blood."
• "[…] I was lastly induced to make some similar experiments on albumen; and, as that of the blood is mixed with gelatin, and with the substance called fibrin by the chemists, […] and as it is with some difficulty that the albumen can be exactly separated from these substances, I preferred the albumen of eggs as being pure and unmixed; […]"