Flour vs Lefse - What's the difference?
flour | lefse |
Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
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Powder of other material.
A traditional soft Norwegian flatbread made from potato, flour, and milk or cream (or sometimes lard) and cooked on a griddle.
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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
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Alternative forms
* flower (obsolete)Noun
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- 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 flourDerived terms
* self-raising flour, self-rising flourSee also
* bran * farina * meal * smeddumAnagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----lefse
English
(wikipedia lefse)Noun
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