flour

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But in India, chickpea flour is a cooking staple, in Latin America it's more common to use maize flour, and in Southeast Asia rice flour is used in many foods.

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  1. noun A fine, powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a grain, especially wheat, used chiefly in baking.
  2. noun Any of various similar finely ground or powdered foodstuffs, as of cassava, fish, or bananas.
  3. noun A soft, fine powder.
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  • At this stage it resembles a very coarse kind of flour, and is eaten in two ways;—either mixed with hot water, until it forms a kind of porridge; or baked in the form of coarse flour, which is handed round at table in little baskets. —  The Story of Ida Pfeiffer
  • Tip dough out onto a surface floured with the additional whole wheat flour, if necessary, and knead until all of the flour has been absorbed, and the ball of dough becomes smooth, about 5 minutes.
  • According to Harriman, quinoa flour is an increasingly common ingredient in processed foods. —  news | WM | http://www.starnewsonline.com
  • The effects of deleting individual gluten loci on both the level of T-cell stimulatory epitopes in the gluten proteome and the technological properties of the flour were analyzed using a set of deletion lines of Triticum aestivum cv. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Chickpea flour is a great low glycemic thickener and is often sold by weight in spice stores and at the Spices chain. —  JPost Headlines
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  1. Middle English, flower, best of anything, flour; see flower.

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  1. An earlier spelling of flower, which in the particular sense of ‘fine meal’ (cf. Icelandic flūr, a flower, also flour, fine meal; French fleur de farine = Spanish flor de la harina = Portuguese flor de farinha, flour, literally flower of meal, i. e., the finest part; cf. flowers of sulphur, flos ferri, etc.) is now confined to the spelling flour: see flower.
  2. See flower, v. In the later senses, from flour, n., 2.
 

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