When you try to mix any kind of liquid with some dry powder, they don't mix well and you can see those unmixed powder form into sort of bubbles!
Is there any good word to describe those? If there is no such word, what would be a concise and clear way to describe those?
I was calling it 'unmixed powder clutters' and did not like it much.
It does not have be formal. Any kind of expression that would be clear enough would be fine.
Delia Smith refers to them as lumps. I bow to her authority on all things culinary.
If you want something more technical than 'lumps', you could go with unincorporated flour.
When you mix two things, you're often said to be 'incorporating' them - so 'unincorporated' refers to the left-over bits when that process has not finished.
In English, you'd never use 'a clutter' to refer to just one thing. Clutter means lots of 'stuff' that is messy or in the way: His bedroom was full of clutter.
I suppose you use clatter for things, where as, lumps, dollops or daubs can perhaps, be used for mass shapeless accumulated something. So, I will probably stick with lumps of wet flour or something. I hope that helps.
