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Leaven :: Leaven (v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

Leaven :: Leaven (n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm..

Azyme :: Azyme (n.) Unleavened bread.

Cake :: Cake (n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake..

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread..

Unleavened :: Unleavened (a.) Not leavened; containing no leaven; as, unleavened bread..

Leavening :: Leavening (n.) That which leavens or makes light.

Leavening :: Leavening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leave.

Cake :: Cake (n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape..

Spongelet :: Sponge (v. i.) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven..

Leaven :: Leaven (n.) Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.

Light :: Light (superl.) Well leavened; not heavy; as, light bread..

Wafer :: Wafer (n.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church..

Leavening :: Leavening (n.) The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven..

Azymous :: Azymous (a.) Unleavened; unfermented.

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven..

Leaven :: Leaven (v. t.) To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.

Overleaven :: Overleaven (v. t.) To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil..

Matzoth :: Matzoth (n.) A cake of unleavened bread eaten by the Jews at the feast of the Passover.

Tortilla :: Tortilla (n.) An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone..

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