yolk

IPA: jˈoʊk

The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.
The grease in a sheep's fleece; lanolin.

Examples of "yolk" in Sentences

For the dough one only uses the egg yolk.
Lecithin in the egg yolk is the emulsifier.
Sometimes only the yolk of the egg is used.
Egg yolk tempera is one of the simplest formulas.
Embryos feed on the yolk of the egg until they hatch.
Is there a breed that is likely to produce double yolk eggs
It often contains an egg, the yolk of which should be runny.
This is the yellow ball which we commonly call the yolk of the egg.
Add the egg yolks one at a time with spatula using a circular motion.
Make sure to scrape the sides of the bowl after each egg yolk is added.
Sometimes the pieces of pigeon are dipped in yolk of egg instead of oil.
After a few days, the heavy yolk components sink to the bottom of the egg.
The egg whites turned into the moon and stars, and the yolk became the sun.
That may take a few days and then that egg yolk is now cemented to the plate ...
Because the yolk is very high in cholesterol, it makes sense for adults to not eat more than one whole egg a day.
Boil it — hard-boil it — until the yolk is a firm yellow globe — a sun shining on manly hearts with cleaned-out ears.
Soft-boiled inside the shell, they furnish a self-contained hot meal (best at just about five minutes, so that the yolk is still runny but the white more or less set).
Its lower, vegetative half (the thick floor of the blastocyst) consists of large cells rich in yolk, while the upper, animal half (the thin roof) is made up of numerous small cells poorer in yolk.