sourdough bread
Fermented flour product
Sourdough bread is bread leavened with a fermented starter culture rather than commercial yeast.
The starter—a mixture of flour and water colonized by wild yeasts and bacteria—gives the bread its characteristic tangy flavor and chewy texture.
The term often implies artisanal quality: She picked up a loaf of sourdough bread at the farmers market.
- loafBaked bread shape
- starterInitiator of action
- levainNatural bread leavening
- crustHard outer layer
- crumbSmall broken-off piece
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Yeast-free baked good
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Packaged white sandwich loaf
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