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Answer for the clue "A lot of dough to prepare — that is a little dough containing a lot? ", 14 letters:
fortune cookie

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Word definitions for fortune cookie in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The jovial anchorman on the local news reaches into the pocket of his blazer and extracts a fortune cookie .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A fortune cookie is a crisp cookie usually made from flour , sugar , vanilla , and sesame seed oil with a piece of paper, a "fortune", on which is an aphorism , or a vague prophecy . The message inside may also include a Chinese phrase with translation ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1955, said to have been invented in 1918 by David Jung, Chinese immigrant to America who established Hong Kong Noodle Co., who handed out cookies that contained uplifting messages as a promotional gimmick.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of hollow snack, common in westernized Chinese food, containing a message on a narrow strip of paper, generally with a wise or vaguely prophetic message printed on the paper. 2 (context computing English) A quote-of-the-day feature (especially ...

Usage examples of fortune cookie.

Wilmot Shaw^ who found it in a fortune cookie he ordered for dessert at the Great China Republic Restaurant in San Francisco.

He sat down and pulled his chair in, trying not to look at the fortune cookie on his plate.

A huge bug, its chitinous carapace an ugly yellow-brown, was pushing its way out of his fortune cookie as if from a cocoon.

They don't know it, but it unnerves them for the rest of the week, throws them off-balance, to find a fortune cookie fortune, and all it says, enigmatically, maddeningly, is ‘.

He had gotten the coordinates from the second fortune cookie in Kidnapper's glove compartment, which was much less cryptic than the first had been.

Then the remembrance of the third fortune cookie in his pocket made him smile.

I see this guy and he's sitting in the River Garden restaurant having Chinese dinner all by himself, and afterward he receives a fortune cookie with his check, which he opens up.

Jerry took a sip of his hot tea and reached for his fortune cookie.