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Alaskan prospector
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sourdough
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska)
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sourdough bread is made by the fermentation of dough using naturally-occurring lactobacilli and yeast . Sourdough bread has a mildly sour taste not present in most breads made with baker's yeast and better inherent keeping qualities than other breads, due ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "leavened bread," also "leaven" (late 14c.), from sour (adj.) + dough . Meaning "fermented dough" is from 1868. The meaning "Arctic prospector or pioneer" is from 1898 Yukon gold rush, from the practice of saving a lump of fermented dough as ...
Usage examples of sourdough.
Darkness had settled in when Jiggers had the sourdough batter frying over a bed of live coals.
Native and nonnative, sourdough and cheechako, subsistence hunter and big-game hunter, subsistence fisher and sports fisher and commercial fisher alike, and that he had managed to do it without being shot, or hardly ever shot at, was a remarkable achievement.
Bobby and I had spent the better part of the day drinking beer and bourbon and bad Chablis, gnawing barbecued spareribs and sourdough bread tough enough to tug your dentures out.
Crisp fried potatoes, sourdough biscuits to go with a honeycomb procured from a nearby hollow bee tree.
There's the beginners' slopes, the Muskeg, Dolly Varden, and Sourdough .
Plays duplicate bridge, and I swear to god, he bakes sourdough bread.
These would have been fighting words from almost anybody but Sourdough.
Homemade sourdough or multigrain bread is a nice companion to this meal.
He was making sourdough bread when I came in and he had a pot of beans setting in the outer coals.
With this he snapped his fingers, and the cooks brought out the sourdough bread, the beans and onions, the johnnycake and the elk meat.
I turned down the heat, buttered twelve pieces of sourdough bread, and put them on the grill.
We ate beans, beef, and sourdough bread, and we had molasses for sweetening.
He was quite adept at reading lips, but I'm not at all sure how much he understood with our lips that chewed on fresh sourdough bread while speaking.
All diners had some shrimp, spinach salad, sourdough bread and a baked potato.
The geography of San Francisco is too beautiful to allow seaminess to get much of a foothold, and so along with these barkers there were many tourists afoot, tourists carrying loaves of sourdough bread and Ghirardelli chocolates.