Flour vs Shortbread - What's the difference?
flour | shortbread |
Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
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A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour
As nouns the difference between flour and shortbread
is that flour is powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry while shortbread is a type of biscuit (cookie), popular in britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.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 .