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noun / verb

batter

BAT-er/bˈætɝ/

A mixture of flour and liquid used to cook or coat food.

Thick batter drips from the spoon into the bowl.

Cook lifts wooden spoon from bowl of thick pale pancake batter, slow thick ribbon of mixture falls back into bowl, egg shells and flour small beside bowl.
Etymology
batterOld Frencha beating

Batteure meant “a beating.” The cooking sense names the mixture by its preparation: flour, eggs, and milk are beaten together to make the liquid batter.

In context

Natashas Kitchen3:47
Think of the batter as the glue that holds the latkes together, and it also adds great flavor.
The Secret to Perfect Golden Potato Latkes Every Time

More examples

  • He dipped the fish in batter before frying it.
  • The cook battered the onion rings.
  • The batter was too thick to pour easily.

Forms

batter · batters · battered · battering

Similar words

dough
Usually thicker and workable by hand.
coating
The broader covering, not necessarily a flour-liquid mixture.