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🍞 A baking fungus 🧑‍🍳 To ferment dough
to yeast

to yeast

7.1
To add a very small living thing to dough or liquid so the mixture rises and ferments
  • verb
  • /jiːst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : hacer levar
  • I've made yeasted (not sourdough) bread without sugar.

Examples

  • For blades as large as the Haliad X, the heavier blade increases the centrifugal force attempting to yeast the entire structure apart.

  • If not, there are a number of yeasted rye recipes out there if you want to explore the handling of rye.

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  • So if you've ever made bread and you have that sort of you're starting it, you've got the yeast and the, and you then feed the yeast with the flour and it starts to bubble.

  • I'm going to cover it with plastic wrap, and I'm going to let the dough do what it does, react with the yeast and the sugars and start to leaven.

  • To make the bread fluffier, you need to yeast the dough properly before baking.

  • When making pizza dough, I always remember to yeast it so it rises perfectly.

  • The recipe instructs you to yeast the mixture for at least an hour to achieve great texture.

Synonyms

to ferment
vsto yeast
  • Specialized
27 5.5

To make sugar change into alcohol or acid using yeast

adds a starter to trigger that chemical change in dough or liquid
to raise
vsto yeast
8 4.8

To make dough become light and puff up before baking

adds a specific biological starter rather than only naming the result
to leaven the dough
vsto yeast
4.4

To make the dough rise and become light by adding yeast or baking powder

adds a specific biological starter to cause fermentation and rising

Compounds

yeast cake
  • Archaic
1 3.0

A small solid block that you use in baking to make bread dough rise

brewer's yeast
  • Specialized
1 3.4

A type of yeast used to make beer and sometimes bread

baker's yeast
  • Specialized
1 2.9

A small living thing used in baking to make dough rise

fresh yeast
1 3.2

A soft block of living yeast used to make bread rise

bottom fermenting yeast
  • Specialized
5.5

A yeast that sinks to the bottom of a beer tank and makes lager beer

autolyzed yeast extract
  • Specialized
7.0

An ingredient made from yeast cells that adds a savory taste

top fermenting yeast
  • Specialized
5.8

A yeast that rises to the top when beer is made and is used to brew ales

wine-maker's yeast
  • Specialized
5.6

A tiny living thing used to change grape juice into wine

yeast dough
2.8

A soft mixture of flour, water, and yeast that rises before baking

Surface Forms

yeast infinitive
yeasted past
yeasted past participle
yeasting present participle
yeasts third person singular

Etymology

To yeast comes from the same old word for 'foam', and a helpful way to remember it is to think of adding the thing that makes the dough bubble. So to yeast dough is to put in what makes it rise and become light.