Well attestedNamed from the place
Chorleywood process
noun · first attested 1961
Most British supermarket bread comes from a method named after a commuter village.
A high-speed bread-making method that replaces slow bulk fermentation with intense mechanical mixing.
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
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- 1961
- Part of speech
- noun
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Chorleywood
- In English
Chorleywood process
The British Baking Industries Research Association developed it in 1961 at its laboratory in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, so that weaker home-grown wheat could still make an acceptable loaf. It cut fermentation from hours to minutes and now accounts for the great majority of bread sold in the UK.
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