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n. (context US standard of identity English) (form of exact synonym flour English)
WordNet
n. flour prepared from wheat
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Wheat flour is a powder made from the grinding of wheat used for human consumption. More wheat flour is produced than any other flour. Wheat varieties are called "soft" or "weak" if gluten content is low, and are called "hard" or "strong" if they have high gluten content. Hard flour, or bread flour, is high in gluten, with 12% to 14% gluten content, its dough has elastic toughness that holds its shape well once baked. Soft flour is comparatively low in gluten and thus results in a loaf with a finer, crumbly texture. Soft flour is usually divided into cake flour, which is the lowest in gluten, and pastry flour, which has slightly more gluten than cake flour.
In terms of the parts of the grain (the grass fruit) used in flour—the endosperm or protein/starchy part, the germ or protein/fat/vitamin-rich part, and the bran or fiber part—there are three general types of flour. White flour is made from the endosperm only. Brown flour includes some of the grain's germ and bran, while whole grain or wholemeal flour is made from the entire grain, including the bran, endosperm, and germ. Germ flour is made from the endosperm and germ, excluding the bran.
Usage examples of "wheat flour".
Finally, when she setteth her drink together, she addeth to her brackwoort or charwoort half an ounce of arras, and half a quarter of an ounce of bayberries, finely powdered, and then, putting the same into her woort, with a handful of wheat flour, she proceedeth in such usual order as common brewing requireth.
I make most of my rye sourdough breads with a ratio of sixty percent rye and forty percent wheat flour.
In the flour loft: issues, covering a period of five years, of the radio magazine Tune In, two parakeets with cage, and a twenty-pound bag of wheat flour, which had been locked in a safe that the criminals -- it is assumed that there was more than one -- succeeded in opening without resorting to force.
He was worried about the exact anatomy of incubi and succubi, and he worried if it was proper to take communion on Friday since, by the unquestionable doctrine of transubstantiation, the baked wheat flour of the Host and the wine, after being taken, were transmuted into the body and blood of Christ.
Standing between Ferek and Hiser, Cerryl studied the provisions remaining in the shed-one half-barrel of wheat flour, in which he'd had to use chaos to kill off the weevils twice already, and less than a quarter of a barrel of maize meal.
Meat roasted over the flames, and flat griddle cakes of wheat flour cooked.
Not that it would be difficult to scrape some yeast off the yeast-ring and use this, but using fresh yeast like that works best with the fine wheat flour used for cakes, and the white bread most common people also called cake.
For the coarse rye flour and whole wheat flour most of the population used for everyday purposes, the slow process of sourdough served to make the bread more easily digestible.
Costello or anyone else knows, there is bound to be a terrible shortage of grain for wheat flour.