yeast dumpling

noun

yeast dumpling

noun

1

A type of soft, fluffy, dough ball leavened with yeast, of European cuisines.

It is generally about the size of a melon, a little fibrous towards the centre, but everywhere else quite smooth and puddingy, something in consistence between yeast-dumplings and batter-pudding.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 476:

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