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starter dough

starter dough noun: a small amount of "live" dough used in traditional bakery to start the fermentation process necessary for preparing sourdough.

Noun

starter dough (countable and uncountable, plural starter doughs)

  1. A small amount of "live" dough used in traditional bakery to start the fermentation process necessary for preparing sourdough.
    Synonyms:
    levain, mother dough, mother sponge

Synonyms of starter dough

Forms of starter dough

pluralstarter doughs

Questions about starter dough

What does starter dough mean?
Starter dough means a small amount of "live" dough used in traditional bakery to start the fermentation process necessary for preparing sourdough.
What part of speech is starter dough?
Starter dough is a noun.
What is the plural of starter dough?
The plural of starter dough is starter doughs.

Words near starter dough in the dictionary

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