Sep. 22nd, 2008 10:43 am
WotD: hockey puck
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muckefuckTime for another collaborative effort!
Leavening is a fickle mistress. Sometimes it works beautifully and sometimes it doesn't, leaving you with bricks instead of bread. In American English, when someone bakes small round leavened items such as biscuits which fail to rise, they are generally likened to "hockey pucks". Of course, ice hockey is not a game played in most of the year, so other languages and cultures must have their own terms for inedibly hard baked goods. What are yours?
Leavening is a fickle mistress. Sometimes it works beautifully and sometimes it doesn't, leaving you with bricks instead of bread. In American English, when someone bakes small round leavened items such as biscuits which fail to rise, they are generally likened to "hockey pucks". Of course, ice hockey is not a game played in most of the year, so other languages and cultures must have their own terms for inedibly hard baked goods. What are yours?
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