"mother dough" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: mother doughs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} mother dough (plural mother doughs)
  1. A live dough used as the source of starter dough, containing live (traditionally, environmentally derived) yeast and ground grains, for making sourdough, that is kept, fed and watered, and used in perpetuity in a traditional bakery or by traditional bakers. Categories (topical): Baking

Inflected forms

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