Object

• kettle: When boiling the kettle for a cup of tea use only the amount of water you need.

• egg: In which film did Paul Newman eat fifty hard boiled eggs for a bet?

• potato: Meanwhile boil enough potatoes to cover the top of the stew in mashed potato made with butter.

• rice: Then boil rice in water, enough to cover rice with.

• water: We now can't boil water or grill anything.

• sweet: This could be four to six lumps of sugar or boiled sweets or 200 ml of orange juice.

Preposition: for

• minute: Reduce the cooking liquor by boiling rapidly for several minutes.

• min: Allow ¾lb sugar to each 1lb fruit, bring again to boil for 20 mins.

Preposition: over

• heat: Add the heavy cream, stir, and bring to a boil over low heat.

Adjective modifier

• rolling: Trouble is, you have to maintain the water at a rolling boil for 5 minutes - an extra burden on your fuel supplies.

• gentle: Place over a medium heat and bring to a gentle boil.

Adjective complement

• alive: Features Boiled alive July 26: The 2003 heatwave killed more than 30,000 people.

• sweet: I popped a boiled sweet - but my saliva didn't flow, and I might as well have sucked a stone.

• hot: A huge structure of corrugated iron, it was always freezing cold in winter and boiling hot in summer.

• dry: Make sure that the pan does not boil dry.

Noun used with modifier

• blood: The whole issue - now widely publicized - about children being kept away from farm animals does make my blood boil.

Preposition: in

• saucepan: Meanwhile, bring the stock to the boil in another saucepan.

• pan: To make the chocolate coating, bring the double cream to the boil in a pan.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• down: The dress code is ' casual elegance ' , which boils down to no shorts, jeans or T-shirts in the evenings.

• over: Any water remaining on the food will spit or even boil over.