[jQuery] $.each on HTML string returned from AJAX?

[OhNoMrBill]

I am trying to run an .each on form subelements of some html returned
in an AJAX request. Like so:

var myReturnedText = "some text returned from server that contains one
or more forms...";

$("form").each(
      function() {
           $(this).removeAttr("onsubmit");
     }
);

What I am having trouble getting my head around is where to put the
reference to the original text (myReturnedText), since it is a
variable and not a DOM element.