Substance which liberates gas and thereby increases the volume of a dough or batter.
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Examples for "leaven"
Examples for "leaven"
1Ritschl discerned in it the leaven of the Fraticelli or Franciscan Tertiaries.
2The leaven of the gospel was permeating the mass of the people.
3Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.
4The leaven of a true Christianity was working in the half-pagan populations.
5At least there was a wholesome leaven in it of honest stupidity.
1But there is one great objection to the use of soda alone as a leavening agent.
2Most recipes rely on baking soda and cream of tartar as the leavening agent for two reasons.
3To appraise the quantity of the matter expectorated is beyond my powers: I observe the result, but do not perceive the leavening agent.
4In an alkaline (low acid) batter, a teaspoon of baking powder is a more effective leavening agent than an equal amount of soda.
5Explain the action of the leavening agents in Sour Milk Griddle Cakes (without eggs).
1Surprisingly, no raising agent like baking powder is used to make choux pastry puff.
2Rent does not exist as an independent self- raising agent.
3Housewives used to mix together oats, flour and a raising agent before cooking them on a hot griddle.
4Whereas most loaves of bread need yeast, the beer in this bread replaces the yeast as the raising agent.
5Everyone uses some sort of raising agent, whether bicarbonate of soda or baking powder, to make their falafel extra fluffy.
6The stimulatory effects of glucose or the cyclic AMP raising agent theophylline on insulin release were not increased by DFMO treatment.
7Plenty of recipes still use bicarb as the sole raising agent, and many add some, as well as baking powder, to get extra lift.
8All share that lovely, friable texture that comes when you mix a relatively low-gluten flour (the regular kind) with a bicarb-based raising agent.
9McKenna and Henry both add raising agents, but with so little flour in my recipe, I don't think that will make much difference.
Translations for raising agent