sour bread

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sour bread - made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active

bread, breadstuff, staff of life - food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

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Sallie began to laugh, but Meg nodded and lifted her eyebrows as high as they would go, which caused the apparition to vanish and put the sour bread into the oven without further delay.

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Injera, the slightly sour bread that serves as an indispensable component of every Ethiopian meal, is made from flour ground from teff--a species of grass native to Ethiopia and a nutritional powerhouse, providing fiber, protein and calcium.

An ancient cuisine, rediscovered

My 'Below The Belt' (Honey, cinnamon stick, fresh lime, cachaca, manuka honey 42 below vodka) set me up for the sour bread that arrived hot - and with butter that is actually spreadable.

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pH plays an important role in food processing whether the objective is to make sour bread not too sour, cheese with a bite, or beer that is just right.