Flour vs Malt - What's the difference?
flour | malt |
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.
grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
* 1896 , , A Shropshire Lad , LXII:
(US) Short for "malted milk shake", a milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor
Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.
To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
As nouns the difference between flour and malt
is that flour is powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry while malt is malted grain sprouted grain (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.As verbs the difference between flour and malt
is that flour is to apply flour to something; to cover with flour while malt is to convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.flour
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Alternative forms
* flower (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia flour) (en-noun)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.}}
- 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 ----malt
English
Noun
(en noun)- Oh many a peer of England brews
- Livelier liquor than the Muse,
- And malt does more than Milton can
- To justify God's ways to man.