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Flour vs Pinole - What's the difference?

flour | pinole |

As nouns the difference between flour and pinole

is that flour is powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry while pinole is a coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often mixed with herbs, which may be eaten by itself or incorporated into drinks.

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 ----

    pinole

    English

    (wikipedia pinole)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often mixed with herbs, which may be eaten by itself or incorporated into drinks.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 11, author=Melissa Clark, title=Third Time’s the Charm, Valentine, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But all of them also called for obscure ingredients ? whole cacao beans and a toasted corn flour called pinole , for example. }} ----