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Quotes About Dough

I've started baking. Having my hands deep in dough keeps them away from my phone.
~ Katy Tur
Sometimes a manuscript is like bread dough. You have to abuse it.
~ Carolyn Chute
A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible.
~ Alton Brown
You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great.
~ Aimee Mann
Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesting supporting character, or there's a lot of dough, although that happens less and less. Let's have a good laugh about that one.
~ Holly Hunter
Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.
~ Julia Child
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need to stop focusing on people leaving earth and focus on, like Jesus said, the Kingdom of God is the yeast. Yeast invades dough.
~ Myles Munroe
I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.
~ Bernardino Ramazzini
I'm from where the real hustlers pile dough, the home of Rich Rich Porter, Azie, Alpo.
~ Big L
Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual.
~ Claire Denis
Failing ownership of a wood-fired oven, whacking pizza dough straight on to the hot grill is the next best way to achieve that beautiful scorched crust.
~ Rachel Khoo
Montreal bagels are much better than U.S. bagels, because there's a sweetness to the dough, and there's a pull. New York bagels are basically bread in the shape of a bagel.
~ Antoni Porowski
Tsampa is made by adding flour to the butter tea, kneading the mixture into a dough and then breaking off small pieces to eat.
~ David Michie
Their storytelling grew richer. One evening, Ali was consumed by a memory. She saw three ripe lemons on the wooden cutting board in her mother's kitchen, right down to the sunlight spangling off their pores. She heard her mother singing while they rolled pie dough in a storm of flour.
~ Jeff Long
Pizza, pizza, Fill up your face, The thicker the pastry, The better the base!
~ Eoin Colfer
Even when I make pizza, I make it from the scratch and prepare the dough.
~ Anubhav Sinha
I forked a waffle onto a paper plate and went to cut it, but it immediately collapsed into a soggy pile of dough.
~ Lauren Weisberger
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
~ Charlie Chaplin
It felt sticky, which was good—the stickier the dough, the lighter the bread
~ Jenny Colgan
A dough might start out lumpy and wet, but as you knead, it will grow smooth, supple, and springy - thats how you know youve fully developed your gluten network and can stop kneading.
~ Sohla El-Waylly
Sunday morning, while the neighbors were whipping up pancake batter, I watched my mom effortlessly roll out smooth dough, smear it with her heady all-day ghee, and transform it into a flaky flatbread with countless crisp and chewy layers.
~ Sohla El-Waylly
Muffin cups in my bakery were real sorcerer's apprentice material, like the dough for the cinnamon rolls every morning could have stood in for The Blob.
~ Robin McKinley