Usage examples for dough:

• Nay, nay; thy happy cake would be my dough it will not serve. "Master Skylark" – John Bennett

• In making the dough I was successful, but the attempt to bake it almost sent me into hysterics. "The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson" – Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

• " Hangin' on to take some dough back to an old woman who ain't even his mother. "A Man to His Mate" – J. Allan Dunn