leavening

Meanings

• noun

  The process of making bread or other baked goods rise by adding a leavening agent, such as yeast or baking powder.

  - "Leavening is an essential ingredient in baking."
  - "The dough was left to rest and leaven before baking."

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Synonyms

leaven , leavening , raising agent

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with leavening
leaven , grievance , heaven , cleave in

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Variants

List of all variants of leavening that leads to same result
leavening , leavenings , leaven , leavened , leavens

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Etymology

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From Old French levain, from lever 'to raise'.

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Trivia

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1. Leavening was used as early as 3000 BC in ancient Egypt.

2. In the Middle Ages, bakers would sell 'sourdough' to households to use as a leavening agent.

3. Baking soda was first discovered in 1846 by a teenager named Elijah McCoy.

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Related Concepts

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1. Leavening agents: Chemical substances that cause dough or batter to rise by producing carbon dioxide.

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Culture

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Leavening has been used in baking for thousands of years. In ancient Egypt, bread was made using a sourdough starter as the leavening agent. In modern times, baking powder and baking soda are commonly used.

How to Memorize "leavening"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a bowl of dough with leavening agent being added and the dough starting to rise.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'leavening' with 'rising' and 'baking'.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic 'Leavening: Lets Rise' to remember the function of leavening.

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