thickening
2
3.2
- noun
- /ˈθɪkənɪŋ/
:
espesorante
- These include thickening agents, absorbents, starch-encapsulated pesticides, starch xanthate for recovering heavy metals from wastewater, and natural components for making degradable plastics.
- thickening agent
- thickening for soups
Now we're going to start by showing you some thickening agents can work.
- Now we're going to start by showing you some thickening agents can work.
Examples
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You use starches like these, and starch is a common way of thickening a sauce or a gravy.
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She stirred the thickening milk, and when it was ready, she separated it through a sieve of twisted willow withes, letting the whey run into a tin pot.
Fiction book (1997) -
It just needed a little thickening agent.
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Irish stew has potatoes, while goatwater gets its starch thickening from a slurry of raw flour added toward the end of the cooking.
Academic text (1992) -
Corn syrup was so much cheaper than sucrose that it saw extensive use as a sucrose substitute for thickening foods and helping to retain moisture.
Blog text (5) -
Cornstarch is often added as a thickening agent to soups to improve their texture.
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To create a creamy sauce, you can use flour as a thickening that gives it body.
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Gelatin serves as an effective thickening for desserts like panna cotta.
Synonyms
1
4.4
Something added to a liquid to make it thicker
How Thick
- Specialized
10
3.2
- Specialized
2
5.6
2
3.2
- US
14
2.5
197
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Thickening comes from the simple word thick, meaning 'not thin', with -en 'to make' and -ing turning it into a thing. So a thickening is an ingredient you add to make a liquid more thick, like cornstarch in a sauce.