fermenting

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Some doughs require days of fermenting before baking begins.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

It is a sugar alcohol typically made by fermenting corn and is now used in hundreds of food products.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

The line between fandom and fermenting cultures blurs, and soon, it seems, a new kind of devotion might take shape: obsessive, meticulous, generous, communal.

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2025

Rum is typically made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses, the thick treacle-like substance leftover after refined sugar has been produced from the harvested plants.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2025

The stench of fermenting fruit made him dizzy.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer