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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A salty brown liquid condiment made by fermenting soybeans and roasted wheat or barley in brine.
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- noun A
condiment sauce and ingredient made from fermentedsoybeans , salt, and sometimes wheat. Common in Asiancuisine .
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- noun thin sauce made of fermented soy beans
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chained_bear commented on the word soy sauce
"Imported from China and Malaya, salty soy sauce was popular, though few had any idea how it was made. The professional cook Martha Bradley believed it was made from a purplish mushroom with a wrinkled surface."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 220
January 18, 2017