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Discover LudwigThe phrase "scarce ingredients" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when describing a situation where there are not a lot of certain ingredients available, making them difficult to obtain or use. Example: The chef struggled to make the dish as he was working with scarce ingredients due to the recent shortage caused by the storm.
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Part of the reason for the decrease is that the company had increased its inventory by $52 million to ensure a supply of scarce ingredients for joint-care products.
True, such beers (made in small batches from relatively scarce ingredients) are costly to produce, but what is also true is that many players in the craft beer industry seem determined to permanently and radically increase what we regard as an acceptable price to pay for good beer.
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From jambalaya Mr. Stehling borrowed an ingredient, eggplant, that is scarce in Lowcountry recipes for purloo but has become the secret ingredient in the version he cooks at his restaurant here, the Hominy Grill.
Although independent innkeepers and chefs own each of the properties, they all committed to creating sustainable menus that protect some of the world's scarcest ingredients.
There is nothing new about substituting expensive or scarce food ingredients with cheaper, or more abundant ones, such as horse for beef or lamb.
With a hefty dose of mom shaming implying that mainstream alternatives will poison your children, scarce information about the ingredients in their products, and unnerving scientific jargon, the company, which boasts a "Culture of Honesty," brings fear marketing to the masses, with diapers, baby wipes, cleaning products and more lining shelves across America from Target to Whole Foods.
In the context of transatlantic literary culture, the wartime politics of food animates a wide range of modernist writers.1 By the same token, food writers such as M. F. K. Fisher and Elizabeth David adapt modernist aesthetics to the project of instructing home cooks on how to prepare gourmet meals out of scarce resources and black market ingredients.
Then, salt was essential as a preservative for ingredients that were scarce or seasonal, particularly proteins.
Human appetites for food evolved at a time when the sugar and fat which are the main ingredients of cheesecake were scarce.
I myself grew up in the generation where we ate whatever we wanted -- allergies were scarce and companies were not modifying ingredients for financial gain.
However, it should be pointed out, that empirical evidence on the joint effects of co-formulants and active ingredients of biocidal products is scarce, and more empirical evidence is urgently needed.
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