mother dough

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mother dough

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A live dough used as the source of starter dough, containing live (traditionally, environmentally derived) yeast and ground grains, for making sourdough, that is kept, fed and watered, and used in perpetuity in a traditional bakery or by traditional bakers.

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@misc{mother_dough_2026,
  title = {mother dough},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mother%20dough},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}