The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word YEAST which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
What causes dough to expand and rise crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| YEAST | 100 % | 5 |
Why may YEAST be the right solution?
Yeast is a type of fungus that ferments sugars in dough, producing carbon dioxide gas as a byproduct. This gas gets trapped in the dough, causing it to expand and rise.
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Crossword Answer definitions
YEAST noun- An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
- A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
- A frothy foam.
- To ferment.
- (of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
- To exaggerate
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