dough

Inside Mohammed al-Fateh's bakery in Khartoum, workers mixed flour, water and yeast into a thick dough, which they divided into round discs and slid into the oven on long wooden paddles.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

So when your hands are covered in dough, you can ask Siri to search the group chat for dinner plan details—and when you should leave to be on time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

“You’ve got air-conditioning fans on at the bakery so the air blows on the dough during proofing. It gets a skin on it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Constantly choosing restaurants that cost $300 a person is tone-deaf, but only if you have communicated that you are not comfortable spending that kind of dough on eating out.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

I’d made some of what Perilee called “sore finger biscuits”—when your fingers were too sore to knead the dough, you’d pinch off balls and bake them.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

You also need time: Almost all doughs in the book require at least an overnight fermentation to improve their flavor, rise and handling capability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Psst, the pizzeria does offer some walk-in orders when doors open at 4 p.m., but management discourages customers from lining up since there usually aren’t that many surplus doughs available.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

I've been hurt by starters that would never become sufficiently foamy, by doughs that sullenly refused to rise, by boules that baked into oversized hockey pucks.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2023

If you have storage space, you can make most cookie doughs and refrigerate or even freeze them.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022

No one had the right of entry without Mrs. Lambert’s permission, and that permission was never given while she was engaged in preparing her doughs and batters.

From Jane Lends A Hand by Shirley Watkins