
1) Add baking powder 2) Add yeast 3) Add yeast to 4) Baking powder 5) Cause to rise 6) Do what yeast does 7) French word used in English 8) Get a rise out of 9) Get the batter up 10) Help rise 11) It can raise dough 12) It gets the batter up 13) It makes dough rise 14) Leavening 15) Lightener 16) Make rise as bread
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1) Barm 2) Cause 3) Component 4) Leavening 5) Yeast 6) Yeastlike
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• (v. t.) To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment. • (n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm. • (n.) ...
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A substance, such as yeast, used to produce fermentation in dough to cause it to rise or lighten.
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Element inducing fermentation. The term is applied to the yeast added to dough in bread-making; it is used figuratively to describe any pervasive influence, usually in a good sense, although in...
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The raising agent in dough, usually yeast or baking powder.
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Leav'en noun [ Middle English
levain ,
levein , French
levain , Latin
levamen alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that which raises, from
levare to raise. See
Lever ,
noun ]
1. Any substance that pro...
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Leav'en transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Leavened ;
present participle & verbal noun Leavening .]
1. To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment. « A little leaven
leaveneth the whole lump...
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Leaven refers to dough in which fermentation has commenced, employed to ferment and render light the fresh dough with which it is mingled. Its use dates from remotest antiquity; the addition of yeast or barm being of modern date.
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[
n] - a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid 2. [n] - an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something
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substance which is added to dough to produce fermentation; specifically a quantity of fermenting dough reserved from a previous batch to be used for this purpose.
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prove verb cause to puff up with a leaven; `unleavened bread`
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leavening noun an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; `his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor`
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Element inducing fermentation. The term is applied to the yeast added to dough in bread-making; it is used figuratively to describe any pervasive influence, usually in a good sense, although in the Old Testament it symbolized corruption, and unleavened bread was used in sacrifice
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(n.) also leavening, (v.) include ingredient or mechanical action to leaven or include air space or CO gas in a batter or dough.
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