hop-rising

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a homemade leaven made from hops and used in baking a kind of bread.

Quotations

1836

She must know how to manufacture hop-rising or salt-rising for leavening her bread.

1852

But they were out of tea, and the hop-rising had failed, and there was no bread in the house.