At McCrady's, Mr. Brock serves a buckwheat ice cream made by steeping toasted groats in a custard base.

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It's essential to remind your guests to watch the clock as their tea is steeping, Mr. Doassans says.

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In this and other areas, Li is proud of steeping himself in the technological basics and the external conditions of whatever business he's in.

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At 15 he started, 48 hours a week chopping up fish in some poky hole, getting shocks from the finning machine, steeping his skinned, sore hands in brine or pickle-juice.

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The traditional process passed down orally over generations and still followed today proceeds strictly by hand through more than a hundred steps such as steeping, washing, fermenting, bleaching, pulping, sunning and cutting all of which lasts more than two years.

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