leaven in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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Almost all quick breads have the same basic ingredients: flour, leavening, eggs, fat (butter, margarine, shortening, or oil), and liquid such as milk.
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Leavening agents cause dough to rise by producing carbon dioxide.
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Before the creation of quick bread, baked goods were leavened with either yeast or by mixing dough with eggs.
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Fermentation is a step in creating yeast breads and baked goods where the yeast is allowed to leaven the dough.
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In cases where yeast cells are not visible, it is difficult, by visual examination, to determine whether the bread was leavened.
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Once flour has been reacted with water and rapidly baked into matzo, it is no longer subject to leavening.
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Ingredients include flour, sugar, salt, ripe banana, pineapple, cinnamon, pecans, vanilla, eggs, and leavening agent.
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They are usually made with an unleavened dough, but are often encountered leavened.
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In some ways, leavened bread is a foam, as the yeast causes the bread to rise by producing tiny bubbles of gas in the dough.
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Martin leavens the material somewhat, but this is a faithful, heartfelt, somber piece about family and responsibility.
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