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Sour bread   /sˈaʊər brɛd/   Listen
Sour bread

noun
1.
Made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active.  Synonym: sourdough bread.






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"Sour bread" Quotes from Famous Books



... bread sour with long keeping. This was terrible to Bessie. She sipped and put down her spoon, then tried again. Miss Foster, at the same table, partook of a rough decoction of coffee with milk, and a little rancid butter on the sour bread toasted. ...
— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr

... use that which is sour or moldy. Some housekeepers imagine that if their bread happens to spoil and become sour, although it is hardly palatable enough for the table, it may be advantageously used to make puddings. It is indeed quite possible to combine sour bread with other ingredients so as to make a pudding agreeable to the palate; but disguising sour bread makes sweets and flavors by no means changes it into a wholesome food. It is better economy to throw sour bread ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg



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