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yeast dough

yeast dough

2.8
A soft mixture of flour, water, and yeast that rises before baking
  • noun
  • /jiːst doʊ/
translation icon : masa de levadura
  • The baker carefully shaped the yeast dough into rolls before letting them rise on the counter.
  • sweet yeast dough

Examples

  • It was when he was scalding the milk for the yeast dough.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Down the arcade, a peaceful line had formed where an old woman was frying balls of yeast dough in oil.

    Academic text (1990)

  • There were buns made with a sweet yeast dough and filled with jam or studded with currants.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • You need to knead the yeast dough thoroughly to help it rise properly.

  • To make the pizza crust, we prepared a simple yeast dough that would rise during baking.

Synonyms

dough
vsyeast dough
199 1.2

A thick mixture of flour and water that you knead to make bread or pastry

specifies that the mixture rises because of a leavening agent during baking
bread dough
vsyeast dough
2 1.2

A soft mixture of flour and water used to make bread

uses a leavening agent that makes the mixture rise during baking

How Light

yeast dough
2.8
doughy
6 4.6
unleavened
1 6.5

Surface Forms

yeast dough singular
yeast doughs plural

Morphology

yeast + dough

The meaning 'dough made with yeast' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'yeast' (a leavening fungus) with 'dough' (a flour mixture). This noun + noun construction is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

The noun yeast dough is dough made with tiny living yeast that eat sugars and make gas bubbles, so the dough puffs up. That's why yeast dough means dough that 'rises' and becomes light for bread and pastries.