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mother dough

mother dough noun: a live dough used as the source of starter dough, containing live (traditionally, environmentally derived) yeast and ground grains, for making sourdough, that is kept, fed and watered, and used in perpetuity in a traditional bakery or by traditional bakers.

Noun

mother dough (plural mother doughs)

  1. A live dough used as the source of starter dough, containing live (traditionally, environmentally derived) yeast and ground grains, for making sourdough, that is kept, fed and watered, and used in perpetuity in a traditional bakery or by traditional bakers.

Forms of mother dough

pluralmother doughs

Questions about mother dough

What does mother dough mean?
Mother dough means a live dough used as the source of starter dough, containing live (traditionally, environmentally derived) yeast and ground grains, for making sourdough, that is kept, fed and watered, and used in perpetuity in a traditional bakery or by traditional bakers.
What part of speech is mother dough?
Mother dough is a noun.
What is the plural of mother dough?
The plural of mother dough is mother doughs.

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