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Leavened by dark humor, “Blood Ties” is breathtaking in conception and execution, with a perversely pastoral finale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Leavened bread is a culture, a comfort, and a celebration.

From Slate • May 4, 2020

Leavened bread is beginning to be known in the principal cities, but not in the provinces.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various

Leavened and Unleavened Bread.—To make unleavened bread the flour is moistened and worked into a stiff dough, which is then rolled thin, cut into various shapes, and baked, forming a brittle biscuit or cracker.

From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Snyder, Harry

Leavened bread two or three days old should be preferred.

From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer