How to Use leavening in a Sentence

leavening

noun

• In soufflés, egg whites work as the sole leavening agent.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 20 Mar. 2023
• As a result, the amount of any leavening agent should be decreased in recipes.
  — Nik Pugmire, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Aug. 2023
• Baking powder: The leavening agent that helps the cake rise.
  — Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2023
• Crepes don't contain leavening, so the cooking process is quick.
  — Nik Pugmire, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Aug. 2022
• Add eggs, sour cream, oil, vanilla, vinegar (for leavening and a more tender cake), and 1 cup hot water.
  — Beth Branch, Country Living, 27 July 2023
• Asad notes that most of these kits use leavening agents or eggs so that gingerbread doesn’t puff and expand like cookies.
  — Jessica Booth, Parents, 19 Nov. 2023
• As bread-baking rituals passed from Egypt to Greece and then throughout Europe, tricks and trends were applied to the art of wild leavening, most of which were short-lived.
  — Stephen Jones & Stacy Adimando, Saveur, 30 Sep. 2016
• This acid often acts as a leavening agent when it is combined with baking soda.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
• These can only be made with four ingredients -- flour, water, salt and yeast or leavening -- and must be baked on site.
  — CNN, 30 Nov. 2022
• Potassium bromate acts as a leavening agent in baked goods.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023
• And just like with matzoh, the cookies are prepared and baked within an 18-minute window to ensure no leavening can occur.
  — Leah Koenig, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• But there is a leavening of sadness that offsets the saccharine and ensures that Ove and his humanity stays in your mind.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
• Add eggs, vanilla, sour cream, oil, vinegar (for leavening and a more tender cake), and 1 cup hot water and mix with a wooden spoon until batter is smooth.
  — Beth Branch, Country Living, 27 July 2023
• At Passover, eggs are used a lot in place of traditional leavening agents like flour, baking powder, and baking soda in many dessert recipes.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2024
• For the topping, combine flour, cornmeal, sugar, leavening, and salt, and add buttermilk and vanilla to make a batter.
  — Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 17 July 2023
• One of the most popular types of bread is also one of the oldest — sourdough, or bread that's made with natural leavening rather than commercial yeast.
  — Amy Halloran, latimes.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Eggs also affect the ratio of dry to wet ingredients, which changes the result even if those eggs don’t play a critical role in leavening.
  — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 18 Dec. 2020
• Flour, butter, water, milk, and a bit of sugar and salt are cooked on the stove; eggs are streamed in, acting as a natural leavening agent; and then the glossy mixture is piled into a piping bag and baked or fried.
  — Tanya Bush, Bon Appétit, 10 Mar. 2022
• The use of chemical leavenings, as baking powder and soda are called, helped create whole new categories of baked goods.
  — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 2 May 2020
• Only use buttermilk as an egg replacement in cakes that already have a leavening agent in them, as cakes that get all or most of their rise from eggs, won't rise with just buttermilk.
  — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2023
• These products are a combination of starches, a leavening agent, and psyllium husk fiber (a gluten-free plant fiber that aids in thickening).
  — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2023
• Yet, for all that, a bit of unintentional leavening did occur.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
• To make fluffy, light matzo balls, some cooks add a bit of kosher-for-Passover baking powder to the matzo meal, insisting that this leavening is perfectly OK to use during the holiday.
  — Karoline Boehm Goodnick, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• For baked goods aside from bread, De Sousa said lowering the amount of leavening agent, such as baking soda or baking powder, will also help maintain the gluten’s integrity.
  — Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2024
• Baking powder: This leavening agent is responsible for the texture and consistency of the baked muffins.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 28 June 2023
• Most extracts and leavening agents such as baking powder, baking soda, or salt need to be measured with a teaspoon or tablespoon.
  — Molly Allen, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2023
• The shop uses a mix of sourdough and traditional yeast leavening and boils the bagels in a lye solution, like pretzels, albeit slightly more diluted.
  — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
• While too much leavening can lead to an overly dense muffin, too little can also inhibit the muffins from rising adequately to create a fluffy and light texture that's not too chewy.
  — Melissa Gray, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2023
• At various moments in the last 6,000 years, the miracle of natural leavening was discovered.
  — Stephen Jones & Stacy Adimando, Saveur, 30 Sep. 2016
• These days, recipes often include some chemical leavening, butter and milk, turning the hearty backwoods fare into a more refined treat similar to Irish soda bread.
  — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 4 May 2022

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024