Today, my roommate Hermien celebrates her birthday. Me and one of the neighbours, a Czech girl called Martina, baked a chocolate cake for her yesterday. We were wondering if the cake mix we'd prepared would expand a lot during its time in the oven. I checked the ingredients for yeast and encountered a word I didn't know: starch.
Mostly, when a word is unfamiliar to me, I run it through my explanatory Longman dictionary program. But this time, the explanation did not really help me.
starch - a white odorless tasteless granular or powdery complex carbohydrate (C6H10O5)x that is the chief storage form of carbohydrate in plants, is an important foodstuff, and is used also in adhesives and sizes, in laundering, and in pharmacy and medicine
I do not spend a lot of time in the kitchen and definitely not in the chemistry lab, so I still could not figure out the Dutch equivalent for the term. There was only one thing I could do: counsel an online translating dictionary. I thought it would be easy to find what I was looking for, but I was wrong. Even the most visited websites seem to lack a lot of vocabulary. Freedict.com, ectaco.co.uk and majstro.com are just a few of the websites that failed the starch test. I also remarked that a lot of translation websites are not very user-friendly.
Eventually lookwayup.com offered me the solution for my quest. Hopefully, websites can expand their territory, so that language learning will not demand this much effort in the future. If you'd be interested. The Dutch word for starch is "zetmeel".
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