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sourdough
(saʊədoʊ)
Word forms: plural sourdoughs
1. variable noun
Sourdough or sourdough bread is bread made using fermenting dough, that has a slightly sour taste.
Mashed avocado is delicious on toasted sourdough.
...an artisan bakery selling ryes and sourdoughs, fruit and olive breads.
2. uncountable noun
Sourdough is fermenting dough used as an ingredient to make bread rise.
The bread was made with coarser flour and raised with sourdough.
sourdough in British English
(ˈsaʊəˌdəʊ)
adjective
1. dialect
(of bread) made with fermented dough used as a leaven
noun
2.
(in Western US, Canada, and Alaska) an old-time prospector or pioneer
sourdough in American English
(ˈsaʊrˌdoʊ)
noun
1. Dialectal
leaven
2.
a.
fermenting dough saved from one baking to be used for producing fermentation in a later one, thus avoiding the need for fresh yeast
b.
bread made with such dough
: in full sourdough bread3.
a prospector or settler in the W U.S. or Canada, esp. one living alone
so called because their staple was sourdough bread Image ofsourdough
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