panification

breadmaking

Noun

  1. breadmaking
    • The theory of panification is not difficult of comprehension. “The flour,” says Dr. Ure, “owes this valuable quality to the gluten, which it contains in greater abundance than any of the other cerealia (kinds of corn)....
    • Two successive panifications of the same flour do not give identical results. - 1942, International Review of Agriculture, volume 33, number 2:

Origin

From Latin panis (“bread”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). Compare French panification.

Forms

panifications