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Flour vs Lefse - What's the difference?

flour | lefse |

As nouns the difference between flour and lefse

is that flour is powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry while lefse is a traditional soft Norwegian flatbread made from potato, flour, and milk or cream (or sometimes lard) and cooked on a griddle.

As a verb flour

is to apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

flour

English

Alternative forms

* flower (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia flour) (en-noun)
  • Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
  • and certain bleaching agents.
  • Powder of other material.
  • wood flour , produced by sanding wood
    mustard flour
  • that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave.'' — Thomas Hardy, ''The Mayor of Casterbridge .

    Synonyms

    * smeddum, plain flour, wheat flour, white flour

    Derived terms

    * self-raising flour, self-rising flour

    See also

    * bran * farina * meal * smeddum

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
  • Anagrams

    * * 1000 English basic words ----

    lefse

    English

    (wikipedia lefse)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A traditional soft Norwegian flatbread made from potato, flour, and milk or cream (or sometimes lard) and cooked on a griddle.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 20, author=Monica Davey, title=For Children of Norway, a Rift With the Mother Country, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=We treasure the heritage more here than they do in Norway itself, said Audrey Amundson of Starbuck, Minn., which sealed its place in history in 1983 by cooking what residents insist was the world's biggest lefse , a Norwegian flatbread made of potatoes, cream and flour. }}