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Dough

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCore term

In culinary arts & cooking, dough means: A thick, workable mixture based on flour and liquid, used to make bread or pastry.

In Turkish: hamur

How it is used

Usually uncountable; dough is normally shaped or worked rather than poured.

Example sentences

  1. The dough was soft enough to shape into small rolls.

    The mixture has enough structure to hold a shape.

  2. Rest the pastry dough before rolling it out.

    The term refers to the mixture before it is baked.

Common collocations

  • bread dough
  • pastry dough
  • bakeTo cook food with dry heat in an oven, especially bread, cakes, pastry, biscuits and dishes covered with a crust or sauce.
  • pastry chefA chef who specialises in desserts, pastries, breads and other baked goods and usually runs the pastry section of a kitchen. Also called a pâtissier.

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