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Leaven vs. Barm — What's the Difference?

Leaven vs. Barm — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Leaven and Barm

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Leaven

An agent, such as yeast, that causes batter or dough to rise, especially by fermentation.

Barm

Barm is the foam or scum formed on the top of a fermenting liquid, such as beer, wine, or feedstock for spirits or industrial ethanol distillation. It is used to leaven bread, or set up fermentation in a new batch of liquor.

Leaven

An element, influence, or agent that works subtly to lighten, enliven, or modify a whole.

Barm

The yeasty foam that rises to the surface of fermenting malt liquors and can be used to leaven bread.

Leaven

To add a rising agent to.
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Barm

Bosom, lap.

Leaven

To cause to rise, especially by fermentation.

Barm

Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.

Leaven

To pervade with a lightening, enlivening, or modifying influence.

Barm

A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread.

Leaven

Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.

Barm

To spurge; foam

Leaven

(figurative) Anything that induces change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.

Barm

Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.

Leaven

(transitive) To add a leavening agent.

Barm

The lap or bosom.

Leaven

(transitive) To cause to rise by fermentation.

Barm

A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey

Leaven

To temper an action or decision.

Leaven

To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

Leaven

To rise or become larger. en

Leaven

Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.

Leaven

Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Leaven

To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Leaven

To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer.

Leaven

A substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid

Leaven

An influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something;
His sermons benefited from a leavening of humor

Leaven

Cause to puff up with a leaven;
Unleavened bread

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