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Flour and water in their awkward in-between phase, neither soup nor bread.
means A thick, pliable mixture of flour and liquid that gets kneaded, risen, or baked into bread, pastry, and pizza.
from From Old English dag, tracing back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning to knead or form, the same family that gave us figure and effigy.
slang cashMoney since 1850s America, because both are bread.
gluten engineKneading aligns proteins into stretchy, gas-trapping networks.
sourdough memoryWild yeast starters can survive for generations untended.