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to remassage the dough

to remassage the dough

7.5
To work the dough again with your hands to make it more elastic before baking
  • phrasal verb
: amasar de nuevo
  • If the bread seems too dense, you might need to remassage the dough before baking.

Examples

  • She remassaged the dough after it became too sticky.

  • Don't forget to remassage the dough before baking!

  • Don't forget to remassage the dough if it starts to lose its elasticity.

  • She decided to remassage the dough after noticing air bubbles during resting.

  • If the bread seems too dense, you might need to remassage the dough before baking.

  • Don't forget to remassage the dough if it starts to lose its elasticity.

  • She decided to remassage the dough after noticing air bubbles during resting.

Synonyms

to knead
vsto remassage the dough
13 3.5

Press and fold a soft mixture like dough until it is smooth

is done again rather than as the initial working stage

How Kneaded

to remassage the dough
7.5
to knead
13 3.5

Surface Forms

remassage the dough infinitive
remassaged the dough past
remassaged the dough past participle
remassaging the dough present participle
remassages the dough third person singular

Morphology

remassage + the + dough

Although 'remassage' is not listed in the dictionary, it is transparently analyzable as re- (again) + massage (to rub/press), so 'remassage the dough' straightforwardly means 'massage/knead the dough again'. The components and the re- prefix follow regular, cross-linguistic composition patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Remassage the dough comes from the image of a baker's hands pressing and folding the dough again like a gentle massage to make it smooth. That's why it means 'to knead dough again to improve its texture'.