المحسن

English translation: bread improver

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Arabic term or phrase:المحسن
English translation:bread improver
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15:55 Dec 28, 2013
Arabic to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Cooking / Culinary
Arabic term or phrase: المحسن
Someone is making bread and keeps talking about the المحسن she added to it. I know it has something to do with enriching the bread, but I don't know what it is exactly.

لا يكون البتاع الابيض اللي شبه المحسن دا حاجه مره

انتي حطيتي محسن اد ايه

زودت ملعقه شاي محسن
Arabic & More
Jordan
bread improver
Explanation:
http://www.lesaffre.com/en/yeast-baking/product-lines/bread-...
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/محسن_خبز
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Samaa Zeitoun
United States
Local time: 17:36
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Thank you, Samaa!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3bread improver
Samaa Zeitoun
4conditioner
Saleh Dardeer
4Barm
Muhammad Said


  

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conditioner


Explanation:
https://www.google.com/search?q=food conditioner&oq=food con...

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Note added at 8 mins (2013-12-28 16:03:46 GMT)
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cake conditioner

https://www.google.com/search?q=food conditioner&oq=food con...

Saleh Dardeer
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 8
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Asker: Thank you for your suggestion.

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Barm


Explanation:
Barm

Barm is the foam, or scum, formed on the top of liquor – fermented alcoholic beverages such as beer or wine,[1] or feedstock for hard liquor or industrial ethanol distillation – when fermenting. It was used to leaven bread, or set up fermentation in a new batch of liquor. Barm, as a leaven, has also been made from ground millet combined with must out of wine-tubs[2] and is sometimes used in English baking as a synonym for a natural leaven.[3] Various cultures derived from barm, usually Saccharomyces cerevisiae, became ancestral to most forms of brewer's yeast and baker's yeast currently on the market.

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Note added at 9 mins (2013-12-28 16:04:33 GMT)
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المحسن هو ما يعرف في اللكنة المصرية باسم "خميرة بيرة"
وهي تعمل على تخمر الخبز ورفعه
http://www.ldlp-dictionary.com/dictionaries/word/5047915/A N...


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barm
Muhammad Said
Egypt
Local time: 00:36
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you for your suggestion.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Saleh Dardeer: خميرة is yeast// أظن أن الخميرة هي هي الخميرة بيرة وإنما هو اختلاف تسمية والله أعلم، خالص تحياتي الحارة من أمام فرن الترجمة :)
15 mins
  -> أستاذ صالح، تحياتي لحضرتك. أنا قصدت الخميرة بيرة، وده بعد ما سألت زوجتي عن الفرق بين الخميرة والخميرة بيرة
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
bread improver


Explanation:
http://www.lesaffre.com/en/yeast-baking/product-lines/bread-...
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/محسن_خبز

Samaa Zeitoun
United States
Local time: 17:36
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you, Samaa!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Saleh Dardeer: Thumbs up :)
1 hr
  -> Many thanks, Brother.

agree  Morano El-Kholy
2 hrs
  -> Thank you Morano

agree  Ahmed Ahmed
18 hrs
  -> Thank you Ahmed
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