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Flour
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Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts or seeds.
Quotes
Quando la gente non avea farina,Lo re diceva : Mangiate pollanie.
Francesco Dall'Ongaro, Stornelli Politici, "Cera una volta".
Translation: When that the people cried they had no flour.Eat poultry, was the answer of the king.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 397.
There are four types among those who sit before the sages: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer and the sieve. [...] The sieve rejects the coarse flour and retains the fine flour.
Pirkei Avot 5:15
While you still have light, grind the flour.
Sumerian proverb, Collection III at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.
See also
Bread
Cake
Cooking
Diet
Eating
Food
Fruit
Sieve
Vegetarianism
External links
flour
Cookbook:Flour
"Flour" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
Category:Food and drink