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Sourdough

noun

A leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread.

A settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska).

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"Sourdough" Quotes from Famous Books

... extracted a stick of beans from the sled. Already cooked, with a generous admixture of cubes of fat pork and bacon, the beans had been frozen into this portable immediacy. He chopped off chunks with an ax, as if it were so much firewood, and put them into the frying-pan to thaw. Solidly frozen sourdough biscuits were likewise placed to thaw. In twenty minutes from the time they halted, the ...

— Smoke Bellew • Jack London

... he pictured himself sitting down to a meal of "mulligan" and sourdough flapjack in some friend's mining shack, and, if this dream came true, how quickly he would shape his course toward the spot he had been directed to by the ciphered note in ...

— The Blue Envelope • Roy J. Snell

Words linked to "Sourdough" : settler, western United States, prospector, leavening, colonist, west, leaven