flour
flour (flo̵ur)
noun
- a fine, powdery substance, or meal, produced by grinding and sifting grain, esp. wheat, or any of various edible roots, nuts, etc.
- any finely powdered substance
Etymology: ME (see flower): a fig. use as “best, prime” in “flour of wheat,” after Fr fleur de farine, lit., flower of meal
transitive verb
- to put flour in or on
- to make into flour
flour
n.
Converse of object
- sift: Meanwhile sift the remaining flour with the salt & spice.
- sieve: First sieve the flour, salt, yeast and sugar into bowl and make a well.
- sprinkle: On a clean surface, gently sprinkle some flour.
- grind: It took a long time to grind enough flour to make bread.
Adjective modifier
- self-raising: The price of self-raising flour has gone up by two pence, wasn't it?
- wholemeal: We produce wholemeal organic spelled flour that will bake a highly nutritious loaf, full of flavor.
- seasoned: Wash the filets clean, then toss in the seasoned flour to cover both sides.
- stoneground: Today it still produces organic stoneground wholemeal flour using French burr stones, a quartz which produces the finest quality flour.
- plain: To make the pastry, weigh out an amount of flour ( say 6 ounces of plain flour ).
- 25g: Mix together 75g oats, 25g plain flour and 15g flaked almonds.
Modifies a noun
- tortilla: These range from ciabatta, pumpernickel, baguette and soda bread, to bagels, flour tortillas and pitta.
- milling: The firm of McDougall Brothers evolved into the first of Britain's giant flour milling concerns.
- mill: The former flour mill is now the North's premier art gallery.
- miller: UK flour millers therefore have to import some organic wheat.
Noun used with modifier
- wheat: Wheat flour is sold in three main forms - wholemeal, brown or white.
- rye: It is difficult to make rye bread using rye flour alone.
- soya: Pollen Substitute Toasted soya flour 1 part by weight.
- buckwheat: It is indispensable when baking with unusual flours, helping give lift to cakes made from cornmeal, buckwheat flour and millet flour.
- chickpea: Chickpea flour should also be bought little and often.
- tbsp: For a thicker soup reheat the blended liquid with a paste made from rose water, lemon juice and 1 tbsp corn flour.
And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions, Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica, Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium.
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