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Toaster
Toaster Background A toaster is a small appliance that uses heat to brown and harden bread. History The practice of browning bread is an ancient one. Early civilizations placed bread over an open fire in order to keep the bread from growing mold. The Romans brought the... Read more |
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bread
bread food made from grains that have been ground into flour or meal, moistened and kneaded into a dough, and then baked. Many types of bread are leavened, usually with yeast, which induces fermentation and causes the breads to rise. The discovery of fermentation is attributed to the Egyptians, who... Read more |
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flour
flour finely ground, usually sifted, meal of grain , such as wheat, rye, corn, rice, or buckwheat. Flour is also made from potatoes, peas, beans, peanuts, etc. Usually it refers to the finely ground and bolted (i.e., sifted through a fine sieve) flour of wheat , which forms the largest proportion... Read more |
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Lords Supper
Lord's Supper Protestant rite commemorating the Last Supper. In the Reformation the leaders generally rejected the traditional belief in the sacrament as a sacrifice and as an invisible miracle of the actual changing of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ (transubstantiation) but... Read more |
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Zygomycota
Zygomycota A phylum of saprotrophic or parasitic fungi that includes the bread mould (Mucor). Their hyphae lack cross walls and they can reproduce asexually by sporangiospores formed within a sporangium or sexually by means of zygospores.... Read more |
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Kiddush
Kiddush [Heb.,=sanctification], Jewish ceremonial blessing indicating the beginning of the Sabbath or any other Hebrew festival. Kiddush is also said at mealtime and consists of a prayer of benediction over the occasion and the wine or bread.... Read more |
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Bread and Puppet Theatre
Bread and Puppet Theatre. An unconventional performing group without a distinct home, company, or financial plan, the group was founded in 1961 in New York by Peter Schumann whose philosophy is that “theatre is like bread, more like a necessity.” The troupe uses... Read more |
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Middlebury College
Middlebury College at Middlebury, Vt.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1800. It is a small liberal arts college noted for its summer language schools, which pioneered in the development of specialized language study. It also operates graduate language schools in France, Italy, Germany, and... Read more |
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Baking
BAKING BAKING. Baking refers to two culinary processes: cooking by dry heat in an enclosed oven and making up flour-based goods (breads, cakes, pastries) that are cooked by baking. By extension a baking day is devoted to making breads and cakes and includes the idea of a batch bake or tray bake... Read more |
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The cancer you can keep at bay with wholemeal bread.
...in wholemeal bread, brown rice...of developing pancreatic cancer. Those...two slices of wholemeal bread - were...San Fran-wholemeal 'It kills the...likely todevelop pancreatic cancer than those who...well as other cancers. Eating a diet...San Francisco ... |
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It's the little things that make a big difference; Dear Miriam.(Features)
...of stroke. CANCER: Poor diet...risk of several cancers including bowel, breast, pancreatic and kidney...gall bladder cancer. FERTILITY...They seem to keep getting bigger...are kept at bay. Wholemeal bread Cereals All... |