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Examples

  • She says those are her favorite burrito ingredients, wrapped inside corn-flour tortillas.

    US School Tries to Build Healthier Food Culture 2011

  • Associated Press A grain truck arrives at an Archer Daniels Midland plant in Decatur, Ill. Third-quarter profit was also hit by a $132 million charge on currency-derivative losses from a Mexican corn-flour unit.

    Archer Daniels Midland Hits Headwind 2009

  • The headquarters of the Grupo Mexico conglomerate and the corn-flour manufacturer Maseca boast fully bilingual automated switchboards.

    Making It In America 2007

  • Just before it's done, prepare a mix of corn-flour and water and stir this in - this gives that gooeyness that savoury pies must have.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Haalo 2006

  • Just before it's done, prepare a mix of corn-flour and water and stir this in - this gives that gooeyness that savoury pies must have.

    Easy Peasy Pie Haalo 2006

  • They are soft, and something like corn-flour cakes, but leave a slight characteristic flavour which is lost in the refined sago we use in this country.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Indian corn-flour, one hundred eggs, 10 lbs. of butter, and five gallons of sweet-milk, were the contents of which the banquet was formed.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • The number of people who prefer tinned peas and tinned fish to real peas and real fish must be increasing every year, and plenty of people who could afford real milk in their tea would much sooner have tinned milk — even that dreadful tinned milk which is made of sugar and corn-flour and has UNFIT FOR BABIES on the tin in huge letters.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

  • Flip the crab cloud over and saute until corn-flour mixture is cooked \expndtw-7 through. \cf0\expndtw0\fs20\par

    Never Come Down Black, Michelle 1996

  • Mix a good dessert-spoonful of Brown and Polson's corn-flour with half a pint of milk, six lumps of sugar, a grain of salt, and a very little grated orange-peel; stir these on the fire to boil for five minutes, then add one egg, beat up until well mixed; pour this batter into a buttered tea-cup, tie it up in a small cloth, boil it for twenty-five minutes, and serve it while hot.

    A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli

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