bread dough
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- noun
- /brɛd doʊ/
:
masa de pan
- Martha kneads the bread dough on a floured board until it is smooth and elastic.
- knead the bread dough
- bread dough rising
- soft bread dough
Expanding that likens it to Raisin bread dough that's left to rise.
- Expanding that likens it to Raisin bread dough that's left to rise.
- And when you make a bread, the yeasts come into the bread and they feed on the sugars that are in the the bread dough.
Examples
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Santa had left a big bowl of bread dough to rise on the stove.
Fiction book (1998) -
The dough is smooth, silky, and elastic but somewhat more stiff than an ordinary bread dough.
Blog text (16) -
I love that it can handle bread dough or anything else I throw at it.
Blog text (9) -
Yes, this takes longer than your average bread dough, but that long kneading time is what yields.
Blog text (6) -
Now she's checking the bowl with the bread dough, seeing how it's rising.
Fiction book (1994) -
There was the year that my girlfriend, our children, and I made bread dough ornaments that didn't quite turn out.
Blog text (19) -
To start the new bread dough, water saved from cooking the potatoes for the midday meal was poured into the bowl.
Fiction book (1992) -
You take this bread dough, you take butter, and you start folding layers in almost like you're playing double Dutch.
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Both girls used the washbasin without prompting, and Mandy went to the bread dough waiting to be kneaded.
Fiction book (1991) -
Ruth was kneeling, flattening bread dough and laying it over the metal stove, while Orpah was mending a garment.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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A thick mixture of flour and water that you knead to make bread or pastry
A soft mixture of flour, water, and yeast that rises before baking
How Thick
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54
1.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is fully compositional: 'dough' means a kneadable flour mixture and 'bread' specifies the type of product it is for, so 'bread dough' simply denotes dough intended for making bread. This noun–noun naming pattern is cross-linguistically common and immediately interpretable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Bread dough is the soft mixture of flour, water and other ingredients that people knead and leave to 'rise' before they 'bake' it. Picture hands pressing and folding the sticky dough, and you will remember it means the prepared mixture for making bread.