Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts or seeds.

Quotes

• Quando la gente non avea farina,
  Lo re diceva : Mangiate pollanie.
  • Francesco Dall'Ongaro, Stornelli Politici, "Cera una volta".
  • Translation: When that the people cried they had no flour.
    Eat poultry, was the answer of the king.
  • Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 397.

• There are four types among those who sit before the sages: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer and the sieve. [...] The sieve rejects the coarse flour and retains the fine flour.
  • Pirkei Avot 5:15

• While you still have light, grind the flour.
  • Sumerian proverb, Collection III at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.

See also

• Bread
• Cake
• Cooking
• Diet
• Eating
• Food
• Fruit
• Sieve
• Vegetarianism

External links

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Cookbook:Flour

• "Flour" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.