Flour vs Stoneground - What's the difference?
flour | stoneground |
Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
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Describing flour that has been ground with millstones rather than steel rollers
As a noun flour
is powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.As a verb flour
is to apply flour to something; to cover with flour.As an adjective stoneground is
describing flour that has been ground with millstones rather than steel rollers.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 .
