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Stretching and teasing huge lumps of dough in the air.
I remember sitting in a high chair – another of my earliest memories, which is very vivid – and being given lumps of dough to play with.
Bread is one of the oldest prepared foods, dating back to Neolithic times when lumps of dough, unleavened, were placed on hot stones in the embers of a wood fire.
When I picture rugelach, I see only sad little lumps of dough, often more turtle- than snail-like, somehow both dry and soft and filled with insipid jam or chocolate.
It was an early culinary disaster: waterlogged lumps of dough swimming in a blandly sweet lake of juice, but given the difficulty of getting hold of tinned pumpkin over here, and the glut of fresh ones littering greengrocers at this time of year, I decide to retest the idea.
Using a pastry scraper, work the water into the flour until you have a very rough heap of buttery lumps of dough (I am the daughter of a builder, and this action always reminds me of my dad working a much larger well of water into a ring of powdered cement).
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Suzanne has long been out of circulation, and she has begun to feel bored with "her noble lump-of-dough-dull life".
Pour in the beer, mix to a rough lump of dough, then flour a worktop and roll out the dough to about 1cm thick.
(In China, noodle vendors with a taste for showmanship learn to do this with the lump of dough balanced on their heads).
One summer favorite back home, says Steven Zhou, features noodles brusquely sliced from a lump of dough, then boiled till wonderfully chewy.
Ahmed was kneading an enormous lump of dough for desert bread, which he baked in a recess of sand beneath the fire.
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