I prefer to swirl rather than stir as over-stirring can cause the sugar to clump, however a little
gentle poking at the melting mixture with a wooden spoon or spatula won't hurt.
Give
one a gentle poke if it bounces back its ready to come out.
However, if the dough is very fragile, even
a gentle poke will collapse the dough.
The key is taking them out of the oven before they seem done: They should still be squishy when you give
them a gentle poke.
Try giving your belly
a gentle poke while you talk to your baby.
And plenty of moms have felt their babies move in utero just with
a gentle poke to the stomach or jiggle of their bump.
It was the right tone —
some gentle poking.
Each time a snail popped its breathing hole out from under its shell and above water, it received
a gentle poke.
Espionage, elaborate robberies, and sky diving, provide the excitement in this thrill - a-minute action movie that takes
a gentle poke at the genres created by Hitchcock and Ian Fleming.
What happens is that I occasionally hear a kind of tick in the wheels, and I can feel almost like
a gentle poke on the pedal.
It takes a bit of fiddling around, but eventually you find the right combination of turns, jiggles and
gentle pokes to get it to work the way you want.