What's the difference between dough and leaven?

Dough


Definition:

  • (n.) Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.
  • (n.) Anything of the consistency of such paste.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3 Tip the dough on to a clean work surface and knead well.
  • (2) 3 For the dough: melt the lard with 100ml water in a small pan and leave to cool slightly.
  • (3) "), and the Scousers ("Dey do dough, don't dey dough?").
  • (4) Transfer the dough to a clean work surface, punch out some of the air, then roll into a 30cm-long sausage.
  • (5) Tip out the risen dough onto a lightly floured worktop and punch down (knock back) to deflate.
  • (6) Keep kneading until the dough no longer sticks to the board.
  • (7) For these palmiers, however, – full of chocolate and honey – I've found the rolling method is best for keeping the filling contained in the swirls of dough and stopping it from seeping across the baking tray.
  • (8) The key difference is in the role of the tourier who rolls the dough out on their chilled marble slabs or tours .
  • (9) 4 Spread the filling over the dough in a thin layer then roll the dough into a cylinder from the longest side.
  • (10) When dividing the dough into pieces, you can weigh them to be sure they are all about the same.
  • (11) Increase the speed to medium-high and work the dough for 10 minutes more, until smooth and elastic.
  • (12) They don't even get to go home for a sleep because dough requires contant prodding, waiting, more prodding and worrying.
  • (13) Pull the dough around the filling and pinch it together at the top, then work around the edges.
  • (14) Singles Day in China was invented by students in the 1990s as Bachelors’ Day – a day to meet prospective partners and hang out with single friends eating deep-fried dough sticks representing the four ones in 11.11 or steamed buns which represent the dot.
  • (15) Add to the dough and gently incorporate by hand, mixing the cheese and jelly evenly into the dough.
  • (16) Roll out the dough into a rectangle, says the recipe.
  • (17) The sedimentation and consistency of the mixtures differed from those of the white corn flour, but without altering the capacity of dough formation to prepare arepas.
  • (18) The predominance of S. exiguus, its vigor in the particular acidic environment of the sour dough, and the correlation of its numbers with the leavening function constitute strong evidence on the role of this organism in the sour dough system.
  • (19) The antimicrobial effects of the different processes involved in the preparation of fermented maize dough porridge were assessed.
  • (20) Traditional fermented foods from most countries of the world may be classified into the following categories: fungal fermentation followed by brining, SSF principally using bacteria, lactic acid fermentation followed by fungal fermentation, production of fermented doughs, alcoholic fermentation, and fermented food ingredients.

Leaven


Definition:

  • (n.) Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
  • (n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.
  • (v. t.) To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
  • (v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gellatly believes that anyone can make their own bread at home and, for a sourdough loaf, the process begins with a tangy starter (sometimes also known as a mother or leaven).
  • (2) One reader wondered whether good fantasy narrative needed perceptions of "reality" in order "to leaven it".
  • (3) Any such levity, however, is leavened by the tacit acknowledgment that existence is futile, and we are all just bags of flesh and bones whiling away the days before death and putrefaction sets in.
  • (4) The predominance of S. exiguus, its vigor in the particular acidic environment of the sour dough, and the correlation of its numbers with the leavening function constitute strong evidence on the role of this organism in the sour dough system.
  • (5) There was always a rueful melancholy, stiffened by irony and leavened by humour about him.
  • (6) After the death of Alexander the Great in 323BC the Greek garrisons of India and Afghanistan found themselves cut off from their Mediterranean homeland, and had no choice but to stay on, intermingling with the local peoples, and leavening Indian learning with classical philosophy.
  • (7) Twenty breads with leavening times varying from 0 to 120 h were prepared.
  • (8) The phytic acid content of bread containing bran was reduced to about 40% after 2 h of leavening and to 15% after 2 d. No further decrease was observed.
  • (9) This paper takes as index the content of free acids and total acids, the action of pepsin in the stomachs of hungry mice, impelling functions and intestines of hungry mice and makes a comparison of the raw products with the processed products of medicated leaven.
  • (10) The Telegraph, for whom he writes that weekly column, says he would be the business secretary , but that must be the paper’s attempt to leaven all the hard news with comedy.
  • (11) Extrinsic labeling of the calcium of whole-wheat flour results in a degree of labeling homogeneity equivalent to that of intrinsic labeling, at least for a leavened bread product.
  • (12) The feasibility of adding chick-pea flour substituting part of wheat flour in yeast-leavened bread-making in order to increase the protein value, was studied.
  • (13) In the majority opinion of Kimble v Marvel Enterprises, justice Elena Kagan sprinkled quotes and allusions to Spider-Man into the court’s decision, using unusually wry language to leaven the ruling about a patent for “web-slinging fun”.
  • (14) The relative biological value of thiamin in leavened bread (whole wheat and thiamin-restored white) and thiamin mononitrate was examined by using thiamin-deficient rats as the test model.
  • (15) And God and the church who live in our cities want to be leaven in the dough, and relate to everyone, to stand at everyone’s side.” It was a message crafted for a city not famous for compassion but recognised as open, tolerant and dynamic.
  • (16) To study the biological value of kumyss leaven, experiments were made with mono-cultures contained by kumyss leaven.
  • (17) The accounts, in my view at least, are not sufficiently sifted and leavened and tempered by time and distance.
  • (18) These are admittedly extravagant additions and the leavened dough crust requires a little effort, too, but if this pudding didn't merit the work I'd be the first to forsake it.
  • (19) Although fructooligosaccharide inhibited the dough leavening ability of YOY920, white bread containing fructooligosaccharide could be produced in the defined dough formula using the new strain.
  • (20) Pitch Strenuous workouts leavened by lots of cheeky-chappie banter.