different between dough vs poolish

English

Alternative forms

• dow, doff, duff (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English d?g, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ey??- (“to knead, form, mold”). Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach (“dough”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), Low German Deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), {{cog|nb|deig||dough}, Danish dej (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Icelandic deig (“dough”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /do?/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /d?f/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: do (music), doe, doh, d'oh

Noun

dough (usually uncountable, plural doughs)

1. A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

2. (slang, dated) Money.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 377]:

     I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

dough (third-person singular simple present doughs, present participle doughing, simple past and past participle doughed)

1. (transitive) To make into dough.

Derived terms

• dougher

Further reading

• dough on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Polish.

Noun

poolish (countable and uncountable, plural poolishes)

1. A mixture of flour and water with a little yeast; used to make some forms of dough.

   Synonyms: pre-ferment, sponge, bread starter

   • 2003, Rose Levy Beranbaum, The Bread Bible, W. W. Norton & Company (?ISBN), page 35:

     In order to ensure a lower acidity, the ideal time to add the poolish to the dough is when it has matured. At this point it will have domed slightly and will be just beginning to deflate. A long poolish produces more interesting aromas and requires […]

Translations

Further reading

• poolish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Alternative forms

• pouliche

Noun

poolish m (plural poolish)

1. poolish

Synonyms

• levain-levure
• levain sur levure
• faux levain