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So this is the crucial ingredient.
So this is the ingredient.
It's chai tea full of cardamom.
It's got ginger, beautiful flavours in it.
It's basically a hug and a mug.
So I just thought, why not it into a mini loaf cake?
Kate will add the lightly spiced chai to her mini loaf sponge and the buttercream topping.
She'll adorn the lot with orange candied peel.
How much of that did you put in?
Well, they recommended a kind of large teaspoon.
I've gone for two.
I don't think you should flavour in life, really.
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Extremely important to what is being discussed or done.
“This is the crucial ingredient.”
Situation: Use it when identifying something as especially important.
Pattern: Use 'crucial' when simply saying 'important' would not express how central something is.
A conversational way to refer to a variety of things without listing them all.
“It's got all sorts of flavours in it.”
Situation: Use it when describing variety in a broad, informal way.
Pattern: Use it before the thing or things you are describing as varied.
In this line, a very informal verb for putting or adding something into something else.
“Why not whack it into a mini loaf cake?”
Situation: Use it in casual speech when suggesting putting or adding something somewhere.
Pattern: For a more neutral version, use a simpler verb such as 'put' or 'add'.
Use too little of something or hold back on it.
“I don't think you should skimp on flavour.”
Situation: Use it when saying someone should not use too little of something important.
Pattern: Keep 'skimp' together with 'on' before the thing being limited.
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The speaker uses it for something that had already become internal to him at primary-school age.
“That was already in my psyche.”
Situation: Use it in reflective speech when talking about something deeply internalised.
Pattern: If the word feels too abstract, keep the surrounding sentence simple and let the context carry the meaning.
Judged yourself negatively and stopped believing in your own potential.
“I kind of wrote myself off.”
Situation: Use it when describing a period when you stopped believing in yourself.
Pattern: Keep the reflexive form when talking about yourself: 'wrote myself off'.
So this is the crucial ingredient.
2:41It's chai tea full of cardamom.
2:43It's got all sorts of ginger, beautiful flavours in it.
2:45It's basically a hug and a mug.
2:49So I just thought, why not whack it into a mini loaf cake?
2:50Kate will add the lightly spiced chai to her mini loaf sponge and the buttercream topping.
2:55She'll adorn the lot with orange candied peel.
2:59How much of that did you put in?
3:02Well, they recommended a kind of large teaspoon.
3:03I've gone for two.
3:06I don't think you should skimp on flavour in life, really.
3:07Make an informal suggestion.
“So I just thought, why not whack it into a mini loaf cake?”
Ask about the amount of something specific that was used.
“How much of that did you put in?”
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