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Teig

dough

noun TIKE Less Common
Food & Drink Ingredients

Also means

batter

Usage Note

Teig covers both stiff dough and pourable batter; context decides. Hefeteig is yeast dough, Rührteig a sponge batter. Plural Teige. You kneten (knead) or rühren it.

Examples

"Der Teig muss eine Stunde ruhen."

Natural Translation

The dough must rest for an hour.

Literal Translation

The dough must one hour rest.

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