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词汇 leavening
释义 leavening
noun
uk /ˈlev.ən.ɪŋ/ us /ˈlev.ən.ɪŋ/

leaveningnoun (FOOD)


[ C or U ]
a substance added to a cake, bread, etc. to make it swell and become lighter, especially a chemical powder or yeast :
Tip the flour and leavening into the mixture.
The leavenings and amount of flour will affect how your cookies turn out.
[ U ]
the process in which a substance added to a cake, bread, etc. causes it to swell and to become lighter:
Soda bread contains baking powder to help with leavening.
This creates air cells in the batter to allow leavening to occur.
She says the vinegar helps the leavening, and also keeps the bread fresher for a bit longer.
Baking powder is a leavening agent used in baking.
In cakes, eggs serve as a leavening agent, making them light and fluffy.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Flour & yeast
all-purpose flour
baker's yeast
besan
blue corn
cassava
flour
flourless
floury
gluten
graham flour
nooch
nutritional yeast
oatmeal
patent flour
pinole
stoneground
unbolted
wheatmeal
wholegrain
wholemeal

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Cookery terms

leaveningnoun (SITUATION)


[ C or U ]
something that is added to a situation and improves it, for example by making it more interesting, less serious or difficult, or more attractive:
The story has a useful leavening of insider knowledge.
The scene was included in the film as necessary leavening.
Work was burdensome without the leavening of play.
Unfortunately, there are no illustrations in the book - despite its serious themes, a little leavening would help.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making things better
add salt to somethingidiom
allay
alleviate
alleviation
ameliorate
cultivate
liven (something) up
lubricate
make a differenceidiom
make a world of differenceidiom
make someone/something over
remedial
restructure
revamp
revitalize
revivify
revolutionize
salve
sharpen
tonic

Related word


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Examples of leavening


leavening
Phosphates are used as leavening agents in cakes, biscuits, and other flour products.
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That might be a very good way of leavening the tendency to express our protests, as part of our particular inclinations.
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In many cases they are reserved mainly for old people, with a certain leavening of families without young children.
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We propose leavening the wisdom of the collective with independent minds.
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I am a great believer in leavening the age group by the inclusion of the younger generation.
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If ever there was a fresh leavening of the loaf, we have had it.
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The foundation on which we build our post-war civilisation must contain a good leavening of spiritual matter.
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That is why there is a continuing need for a substantial leavening of outsiders in the machinery of government.
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It will be deciding policy, and it is just as well to have this leavening of people other than engineers taking part in its deliberations.
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They are very good and excellent material, but what we want is maturity and a strong leavening of older men and men of longer service.
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So much for the new spirit which we wish to see quickening and leavening our internal, economy, and particularly our fiscal policy.
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One of the ways we will encourage them is by leavening our society with a lot more artists.
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A leavening of graduates in the service would assist in this and in raising the level of achievement and the standard of the service.
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A foreign leavening is desirable in any good university, but it should be a leavening and not a near take-over.
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He has a point of view of his own, and we shall watch with expectancy the effects of the leavening of new ideas.
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