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✅ To show truth 🧪 To test 🍞 To let rise 🖨️ To print test
to prove

to prove

19 8.1
Allow dough to rise and become light before baking
  • verb
  • /pruːv/
translation icon : fermentar
  • Bioengineering barley's genes for thioredoxin and related proteins might prove key to making leavened loaves from barley flour.

Examples

  • Let the dough prove for an hour until it has doubled in size.

  • You need to cover the bowl with a cloth while the dough proves in a warm place.

  • And if they prove they'll get fatter and then when they bake, they'll get fatter.

  • Once the yeast is activated, the mixture will begin to prove and become airy.

Synonyms

to rise
vsto prove
718 1.0

To move upward into the air, like smoke or mist

is the specific baking fermentation causing dough to become light
to raise
vsto prove
8 4.8

To make dough become light and puff up before baking

is specifically fermentation before baking, not any leavening method
to proof
vsto prove
2 8.1

To let dough rise before baking

refers to the rising action itself rather than testing yeast

Antonyms

to collapse
579 3.9

To fall down suddenly, for example when a person faints or a building breaks

to sink
358 1.0

To move down physically or emotionally, often when tired

Phrasal Verbs

to prove oneself
76 4.8

To show you are capable, skilled or brave by meeting a challenge

to prove otherwise
15 5.2

Show that the opposite is true

How Risen

to prove
19 8.1
to rise
904 1.0
unrisen
6.5

Surface Forms

prove infinitive
proved past
proved past participle
proving present participle
proves third person singular

Etymology

Prove in baking comes from Latin probare 'to test', and a helpful way to remember this is that bakers 'test' the dough by letting it rise until it looks 'good' and ready. That is why to prove dough means to let it rise and become light.