flour
Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
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Born ~1830 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
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Buy organic flour and make your own bread:
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Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
“My tea: roasted chicken breast fillet with a home-made chunky Stilton, Onion and Parsley sauce, served on a bed of Conchiglie Pasta, washed down with a bottle of Old Speckled Hen ale. Sauce: Stilton Onions Butter Plain flour Fresh parsley Black Pepper”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Sourdough starter update: Seems healthier, raises after feedings, but I still haven't tried making bread yet... Rye flour and a warmer place seem to have been the fix.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Beautiful shape, indicates near perfect knead-rise, nice toasty brown top? I do believe you're right! Sometimes it's hard to get the balance of ingredients right, flour too moist or dry throwing off liquid measurements. Not that baking is a science, but it could be.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“And the only way to avoid it is to go strictly gluten free. Like, strictly. “Made in a factory that also handles wheat”? You can’t eat it. Share a toaster? No you don’t. Your partner cooks THEIR OWN FOOD with wheat flour? You’re fucked.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“This was the loaf. Not sour dough. But it's homemade yeast and home milled grains mixed with mauri flour”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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Powder of other material.
“Electric Grain Mill - High Speed Wheat, Corn, Grain Grinder, Flour Mill - Assembled in the USA - Stainless Steel Milling Chamber #ElectricGrainMill #USA #KitchenMill”
— Bluesky· May 2026“According to Ransomware.live, thegentlemen ransomware group has added The Modern Flour Mill to its victims.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Sunrise Sourdough and Flour-Dusted Paws #dogs #goodboy #doglover #puppy #doglife #dogsofinstagram #cute #bestfriend #dogoftheday #ilovemydog”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Buy organic flour and make your own bread:”
— Bluesky· May 2026“French civilization really has achieved glorious things in the field of flour and butter. 🇫🇷”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(US, _, standard of identity) The food made by grinding and cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid and certain bleaching agents.
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A flour for baking and cooking that is ground from corn (maize).
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(British) A very fine starch powder derived from corn (maize) used in cooking as a thickener, to keep things from sticking, or as an anti-caking agent.
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(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, cooking) A wheat flour with a medium gluten content, suitable for general use.