Flour
noun
A fine powder made from grain, usually wheat, and used to make bread, cake, and other food products.
The recipe calls for two cups of flour.
Often appears as...
- all-purpose flour
- flour mill
verb
To sprinkle or coat with flour.
You need to flour the baking tin before adding the mixture.
Often appears as...
- flour the surface
- flour the pan
noun
A fine powder made from grain, usually wheat, and used to make bread, cake, and other food products.
The recipe calls for two cups of flour.
Often appears as...
- all-purpose flour
- flour mill
verb
To sprinkle or coat with flour.
You need to flour the baking tin before adding the mixture.
Often appears as...
- flour the surface
- flour the pan
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Types of Flour
Different grains produce various flours, like wheat, corn, or rice, each with its own use in cooking.
Corn flour is often used for making tortillas.
Pro Tip 2/3Baking Essential
Flour forms the foundation of baking, a must-have for creating structure in breads and pastries.
Nothing beats the smell of fresh flour bread from the oven.
Pro Tip 3/3Connotation of Purity
White flour often suggests purity and is a staple in many cultures, symbolizing basic food.
The bride wore white, as pure as flour.
Pro Tip 1/3Types of Flour
Different grains produce various flours, like wheat, corn, or rice, each with its own use in cooking.
Corn flour is often used for making tortillas.
Pro Tip 2/3Baking Essential
Flour forms the foundation of baking, a must-have for creating structure in breads and pastries.
Nothing beats the smell of fresh flour bread from the oven.
Pro Tip 3/3Connotation of Purity
White flour often suggests purity and is a staple in many cultures, symbolizing basic food.
The bride wore white, as pure as flour.
Pro Tip 1/3Types of Flour
Different grains produce various flours, like wheat, corn, or rice, each with its own use in cooking.
Corn flour is often used for making tortillas.
Pro Tip 2/3Baking Essential
Flour forms the foundation of baking, a must-have for creating structure in breads and pastries.
Nothing beats the smell of fresh flour bread from the oven.
Pro Tip 3/3Connotation of Purity
White flour often suggests purity and is a staple in many cultures, symbolizing basic food.
The bride wore white, as pure as flour.
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Dean Ornish: Healing...
Fruits, vegetables, whole wheat flour, brown rice, in their natural forms, are rich in fiber. The fiber fills you up before you get too many calories and it slows the absorption, so you don't get that rapid rise in blood sugar. And you get all the disease-protective substances. It's not just what you exclude from your diet, but also what you include that's protective.
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A sci-fi vision of love...
would come out of us to describe them. And we'd forget them as soon as we made them, and throw them over our shoulder and go on to the next thing, on and up. Or one time, Navid said that our talk was like we were always making bread, and that we were always adding in a little more flour and a little more water, and folding it in and turning it over
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Mary Roach: 10 things...
You can use flour and water, or cornstarch and water. I actually found three separate recipes in the literature. My favorite being the one that says -- you know, they have the ingredients listed, and then in a recipe it will say, for example, two dozen cupcakes." This one said, one ejaculate."
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Safari Live - Day 308 PIPE...
always said first thing she learned to make and her mother wouldn't know she was a domestic science teacher believe it or not my mother's mother my grandmother and scones you can make very easily butter butter flour don't use margarine please whatever you do butter flour a
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Peter Reinhart: The art...
Now, wheat is alive, and as we harvest it, it gives up its seeds. Now, at least with seeds we have the potential for future life. We can plant those in the ground. And we save some of those for the next generation. But most of those seeds get crushed and turned into flour.
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3 thoughtful ways to...
as I played with flour balloons as a child, and as I poured sand on my head as an adult, is that some of the techniques that seem second nature to me and to others who live in dry countries might help us all address what is fast becoming a global crisis.
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What’s the big deal with...
What has gluten been doing for the previous entirety of human history, and why do you suddenly care about it? Gluten is responsible for the elastic consistency of dough and the chewiness of foods made from wheat flour, like bread and pasta.
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How to build a resilient...
that grows around them. And the Qasab reed is integral to every aspect of life. It is food for water buffalo, flour for humans and building material for these biodegradable, buoyant islands
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How to rebuild the world...
complex mechanisms of the windmill and we take that flour and we cook it we bake bread and the heat of the fire makes the food taste nice but most importantly helps to break down the food
Video examples
Parasite in the Poo PIPE...
it breaks through the cactus's skin and bursts into flour
Video examples
Dean Ornish: Healing...
Fruits, vegetables, whole wheat flour, brown rice, in their natural forms, are rich in fiber. The fiber fills you up before you get too many calories and it slows the absorption, so you don't get that rapid rise in blood sugar. And you get all the disease-protective substances. It's not just what you exclude from your diet, but also what you include that's protective.
Video examples
A sci-fi vision of love...
would come out of us to describe them. And we'd forget them as soon as we made them, and throw them over our shoulder and go on to the next thing, on and up. Or one time, Navid said that our talk was like we were always making bread, and that we were always adding in a little more flour and a little more water, and folding it in and turning it over
Video examples
Mary Roach: 10 things...
You can use flour and water, or cornstarch and water. I actually found three separate recipes in the literature. My favorite being the one that says -- you know, they have the ingredients listed, and then in a recipe it will say, for example, two dozen cupcakes." This one said, one ejaculate."
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 308 PIPE...
always said first thing she learned to make and her mother wouldn't know she was a domestic science teacher believe it or not my mother's mother my grandmother and scones you can make very easily butter butter flour don't use margarine please whatever you do butter flour a
Video examples
Peter Reinhart: The art...
Now, wheat is alive, and as we harvest it, it gives up its seeds. Now, at least with seeds we have the potential for future life. We can plant those in the ground. And we save some of those for the next generation. But most of those seeds get crushed and turned into flour.
Video examples
3 thoughtful ways to...
as I played with flour balloons as a child, and as I poured sand on my head as an adult, is that some of the techniques that seem second nature to me and to others who live in dry countries might help us all address what is fast becoming a global crisis.
Video examples
What’s the big deal with...
What has gluten been doing for the previous entirety of human history, and why do you suddenly care about it? Gluten is responsible for the elastic consistency of dough and the chewiness of foods made from wheat flour, like bread and pasta.
Video examples
How to build a resilient...
that grows around them. And the Qasab reed is integral to every aspect of life. It is food for water buffalo, flour for humans and building material for these biodegradable, buoyant islands
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
complex mechanisms of the windmill and we take that flour and we cook it we bake bread and the heat of the fire makes the food taste nice but most importantly helps to break down the food
Video examples
Parasite in the Poo PIPE...
it breaks through the cactus's skin and bursts into flour
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Jenna Ushkowitz
South Korean Actress
Instead of trying crazy diets now, I just live by a few easy rules: I try to stay away from white flour as much as I can - I go for grains and brown rice instead, and I pick lean meats, like chicken or turkey, over red meat most of the time.
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Karin Slaughter
American Writer
When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
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Gil Marks
American Writer
I tend to avoid cakes made with matzo meal instead of flour. Also, most prepared dessert products and mixes. Sometimes the packaging they come in tastes better than the product.
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Jose Marti
Cuban Activist
If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
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Luke Hemsworth
Australian Actor
Mother's Day routine is usually a lot of flour, eggs, and a big mess in the kitchen. That's what it involves in our house. Making sure that mom has her pancakes and coffee.
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Danica McKellar
American Actress
I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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Sherry Yard
American Chef
Meringue allows me to cut out flour in a lot of desserts and make them lighter. It's just about my favorite thing to work with.
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Thandie Newton
British Actress
You need a good, healthy diet - it's about finding out what your body needs. Sugar is a disaster for skin, as is white flour.
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Mikhail Kalashnikov
Russian Inventor
We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.
Quote examples
Pablo Neruda
Chilean Writer
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
Quote examples
Jenna Ushkowitz
South Korean Actress
Instead of trying crazy diets now, I just live by a few easy rules: I try to stay away from white flour as much as I can - I go for grains and brown rice instead, and I pick lean meats, like chicken or turkey, over red meat most of the time.
Quote examples
Karin Slaughter
American Writer
When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
Quote examples
Gil Marks
American Writer
I tend to avoid cakes made with matzo meal instead of flour. Also, most prepared dessert products and mixes. Sometimes the packaging they come in tastes better than the product.
Quote examples
Jose Marti
Cuban Activist
If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
Quote examples
Luke Hemsworth
Australian Actor
Mother's Day routine is usually a lot of flour, eggs, and a big mess in the kitchen. That's what it involves in our house. Making sure that mom has her pancakes and coffee.
Quote examples
Danica McKellar
American Actress
I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
Quote examples
Sherry Yard
American Chef
Meringue allows me to cut out flour in a lot of desserts and make them lighter. It's just about my favorite thing to work with.
Quote examples
Thandie Newton
British Actress
You need a good, healthy diet - it's about finding out what your body needs. Sugar is a disaster for skin, as is white flour.
Quote examples
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Russian Inventor
We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.
Quote examples
Pablo Neruda
Chilean Writer
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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