The word "grease" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a thick oily substance used to lubricate machinery or as a verb meaning to coat with such a substance. Example sentence: She gave the door hinges a good grease before hanging it.
Makes enough for 16 large brownies whole blanched almonds 160g whole blanched hazelnuts 160g unsalted butter 300g, chopped Valrhona or other dark chocolate (70%) 500g, broken or chopped into small pieces eggs 5 caster sugar 500g plain flour 100g fine sea salt a pinch Preheat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4. Line and lightly grease a 36cm x 26cm x 3.5cm baking tray.
Most people can see the picture: the bankers grease the politicians' palms, the politicians bail out the bankers with public funds, the bankers pay themselves fat bonuses and loan the money back to the public with interest.
Click here to order a copy for £20 from Guardian Bookshop Serves 8 under-ripe pears 5 dark chocolate 180g butter 250g eggs 6 sugar 175g ground almonds 100g Poire William liqueur 2 tbsp Preheat the oven to 170C/gas mark 5 and grease and line a 23cm round deep cake tin.
Don't grease the tin – the cake will rise better if you don't.
The second point is that if we look at participation in parliamentary votes, the Lib Dem MEPs were technically the hardest working major UK party in Europe - elbow grease gets you nowhere, these days.
The routine "pocket payments" that grease the wheels of Hungary's health services are a legacy of the socialist regime.
We all know the stories about lifting the seam or using grease to help polish the ball, and the way that generally umpires tended to ignore such actions, or at best, offer a quiet word.
3 Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4 and grease a large baking tray.
Serves eight to 10. 300g dark 70% cocoa solids chocolate 200g unsalted butter 130g organic rye flour 1 large pinch salt 1 large pinch cinnamon 5 medium eggs 300g caster sugar ½ tsp vanilla essence Heat the oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4. Lightly grease and line a 24cm cake tin.
And only a very self-absorbed little group of narcissists would fail to spot the irony of a self-styled IRA attacking the "criminal " activity of bankers, not least their willingness to "grease the politicians palms".
A subsidiary of Ford recently bought an olive-oil factory, ostensibly both to grease its import channels and also limit its stock of Argentine currency.Asked what his firm was doing with excess pesos, an executive of another foreign car firm just laughed.
