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means The fine powder made by grinding grain — most often wheat — used as the foundation of bread, cakes, and most baking.
from Flour and flower are the same word, split apart over centuries of spelling. Both come from Old French 'flour,' from Latin 'flos, floris' (flower, bloom). The sense here is 'the flower of the meal' — the finest, choicest part of the ground grain, sifted out from the coarser bran. English used a single spelling for both meanings well into the 1700s, and only later did 'flour' settle as the baking word while 'flower' kept the petals.
- explosive
- Suspended flour dust can detonate like a bomb
- word root
- Once meant the flower, the finest part of grain
- enrichment
- White flour gets vitamins added back after stripping
- ancient
- Humans ground flour 30,000 years ago
- gluten
- Its stretch comes from two proteins meeting water
king arthur baking company — american flour brand founded in 1790, produces over 200,000 tons annually
bob's red mill — oregon-based flour miller founded in 1978, specializes in whole grain flours
pillsbury flour — major american brand established in 1872, part of general mills