Here, at the wedding, the bride and bridegroom hold between them a doll made of dough with 21 cowries inside, and as the priest repeats the marriage texts they pull it apart like a cracker and see how many cowries each has got.
The child's hair and nails are cut for the first time on the Shivratri or Akti festival following the birth, and are wrapped up in a ball of dough and thrown into a sacred river.
Some dough is then applied to this and it is carried home and let loose in the house.
The finer flour is made into dough with hot water and baked into thick flat chapatis or cakes, weighing more than half a pound each; while the coarse flour is boiled in water like rice.
The head of the newborn child is shaved clean, as the birth-hair is considered to be impure, and the hair is wrapped up in dough and thrown into a river.
The Hindus usually wrap up a child's first hair in a ball of dough and throw it into a running stream, with the cuttings of his nails.
In Mandla at a wedding the barber comes and cuts the bride's nails, and the cuttings are rolled up in dough and placed in a little earthen pot beside the marriage-post.
Or the mother, when she has kneaded dough and washed her hands afterwards, will pour a drop or two of the water down the child's throat.
In Nimar, if an unmarried girl becomes pregnant, two cakes of doughare prepared, a piece of silver being placed in one and a lump of coal in the other.
The children sat down at the table, and the water-sprite set before them a dish of dumplings, but as the dumplings had not been cooked and were only dough the children could not eat them.
The water-sprite set them tasks that they could not possibly do, and gave them only dough to eat, so the children made up their minds to run away.
But the simpleton was determined to go, so his mother gave him an end of dough that was left from the baking and a bottle of sour beer, for that was good enough for him.
He reached into his wallet and pulled out the piece of dough, but what was his surprise to find that it was dough no longer, but a fine cake, all made of the whitest flour.
She made two horns of dough and dried them in the sun until they were hard, and then came to "butt" with the goat.
She sits by the oven with a flat stone at her side, patting the lumps of dough into thin cakes like wafers as large as the brim of your straw hat.
One was given to each Apostle when they went forth to preach, that the act of mingling particles of it with the dough to be consecrated at every Eucharist, might connect the bread used on each occasion with that used at the first.
That purpose is neither communion of the sick, nor adoration; but the leavening of the dough that is to be baked for the next celebration.
The tanura serves also as an oven, and when the fire has subsided into embers the thin pancakes of dough (the form in which bread is usually made in the mountains) are plastered round the hot sides of the pit.
If we don't come back he'll collect the doughand vamoose.
He'll jest tell you to take the dough and ride to Sanborn and take the train for El Paso.
Then he went to the scullery, wetted his hands, scooped the last white dough out of the punchion, and dropped it in a baking-tin.
Then from the red earthenware panchion of dough that stood in a corner she took another handful of paste, worked it to the proper shape, and dropped it into a tin.
Napolis boat, which 'ill be a nigh thing if they get there in time to meet it, dough dey has taken the sleigh an' the fast horses.
Mrs. Sherwood nearly dropped her biscuit dough in her surprise at Nan's question.
Met up with someone who had lots ofdough and no son to carry on the family name.
The good Lord only knows," Mrs. Sherwood shook her head as she sifted more flour on her biscuit dough and then kneaded it lightly and expertly.
Ixtaccihuatl had a wooden idol representing her in the Great Temple and Popocatepetl a representation of dough of amarand and maize seeds.
Hetty, dear," said he, "if I roll this dough into cannon balls will they bake nice?
Amy was already busy rolling out dough and cutting cakes, so Bo was delighted to help.
If desired shorter, three-quarters of a cupful of lard can be used, but the dough must be kept thoroughly chilled, and it is best made in a cold room.
Next she should be shown how to cut into small rounds without any waste, for the dough that is left to be molded over will take up more flour and consequently be thicker and not so light.
As small cakes bake more evenly and quickly for the inexperienced cook, it is a good idea to let the child put her cakedough in muffin tins.
In these manufactories the dough is prepared by a mixer, see Fig.
I feebly heaved the dough at him, and, having the advantage of him because I could stand up under the table, got a fair start for the stairs, but was caught halfway up them.
From the yard I went into the kitchen, got some dough from the cook, and crawled under the kitchen table.
In India Barley meal is made into balls of dough for the oxen and camels.
The gluten confers the property of rising ondough or paste made of Rice flour.
Major Prouty, who had hoped to die in his boots, picturesquely, had passed away quietly in his bed with acute indigestion from eating sour-dough sinkers of his own manufacture.
Then he set out a tin of molasses and the sour-dough bread, after which there was nothing to do but wait for the potatoes to boil, and for Kate.
Some offered instead ofdough four little pies or four pods of green pepper.
Round this summit there seem to have been stuck rolls ofdough representing the clouds usually formed about the crests of high mountains.
Above all, a dough image of the god of fire curiously dressed was fixed.
They made the images--apparently like human figures--out of the dough of wild amaranth seed, and covered them with paper.
The face of the human image that looked out over these dough clouds was daubed with melted ulli; and to both cheeks of it were stuck little tortillas, or cakes of the everywhere-present dough of wild amaranth seeds.
On the top stands the dough image of the fire god, with all his ornaments and weapons, and with the three tamales sticking out so oddly above his head.
At the same time the images of the mountains, which we have attempted to describe, were broken up, the dough with which they were covered was set out to dry in the sun, and was eaten, every day a piece.
Then was prepared, to be set on the very top of the pole or tree, a statue of the god Xiuhtecutli, made like a man out of the dough of wild amaranth seeds, and covered and decorated with innumerable white papers.
Thus, in the fifteenth month, a dough statue of Huitzilopochtli was broken up and distributed among the men; this ceremony was called teoqualo, meaning 'the god is eaten.
When the dough has rested take the butter from the water, wipe it with a cloth and dip it in flour.
Then mix the two loaves and knead a little, not much because the dough must remain soft.
He was mixing the dough for hot biscuit when he heard some one ride up.
Waco nodded as he tucked a roll of dough into the pan.
I can breathe through my mouth for a while and I don't want to do anything to keep the dough from doing its perfect work on my poor nose.
The air was fresh and soothing and we were tired anyhow; our masks were not conducive to conversation, so one by one we dropped off to sleep while the dough was getting in its perfect work.
He kept us on needles and pins all the time, threatening to tell the boys of our dough masks.
Please tell me if you were assisting poor, dear Blanche and raising her dough for her.
Then we lay down while Blanche placed tenderly on each burning countenance a dough mask.
We slept for hours I think, and while the doughwas busy, the yeast was not idle but responded readily to the warmth occasioned by our poor faces.
The dough mask is too fresh in my memory, however, for me to get myself messed up with anything else.
The day after the sail that we had spent in dough masks, Mabel had evidently spent in the mask of a lively, agreeable, obliging girl, doing everything in her power to make herself attractive to her possible hostess.
Aunt Twylee interrupted, rolling the doughon the board a little flatter, a little faster.
Gracious," said Aunt Twylee as she speared scraps of dough with the point of her long paring knife.
A woman who placed dough in the oven, found it raw when taken out, though the oven was very hot.
Another who had dough prepared for baking at the ninth hour, but determined to set it aside till Monday, found, the next day, that it had been made into loaves and baked by divine power.
Even in the midst of his serious anxiety, the idea of himself demurely kneading dough was too much for his gravity.
I've been pummelling dough every day at five in the morning for the last six weeks, and still not a single roll has turned out decently.
But nonetheless she resumed her position at the bowl of dough again, and Paul chatted artfully, to distract her thoughts from his lesson in cooking, while he hastily completed the sketch.
He'd walk a thousand miles before he would let himself be trussed up in a canvas apron, and put to kneading dough for the rest of his days.
If I waited for any one of those things to happen, I'd be pounding dough until doomsday!
This is a delicious long brown loaf, and there are always a few raisins mixed with the dough to keep it from getting stale.
Those who have no ovens of their own put the dough in a large long baking-tin and send it to the baker.
Pour this corn-meal dough into a pan which has been generously greased, and bake.
The dough may also be shaped into a loaf 3/4 inch thick and baked in a pan by planting the pan in a bed of hot coals, covering it with another pan or some substitute, and placing a deep layer of hot coals all over the cover.
Mix 2 scant teaspoonfuls of salt with 1 quart of flour, add enough cold water to make a stiff, smooth dough and knead, pull, and pound the dough until it blisters; the longer it is worked and beaten the better.
Test them with a clean splinter of wood; thrust it into the biscuit and if no dough clings to the wood the biscuits are done.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dough" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
