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Example sentences for "flour"

Lexicographically close words:
flouncing; flounder; floundered; floundering; flounders; floure; floured; floures; flouring; flouris
  1. The reason for this is, that winter wheat flour contains a larger per cent.

  2. Straight dough is so called, because all ingredients such as yeast, salt, sugar, lard, water and flour are all mixed and formed into a dough.

  3. The ash of flour is mostly composed of phosphates, and are of great importance because they are bone-forming and help to build up the framework of the human body.

  4. Flour requires light to give it the best conditions for it to age.

  5. The above method has been very successfully used in places where flour storage was limited and no means of heating the flour was available.

  6. The amount of flour added to the gallon of liquid depends upon the class of bread to be made.

  7. Flour which is aged will on the average absorb 5 per cent.

  8. Flour should be kept in a dry, light and well ventilated room.

  9. It has been bleached by the sunlight, and if it were baked beside the same flour which was not placed in the sunlight, you could hardly believe they were the same flour.

  10. A hard, northwestern flour requires a slack dough if the flour has been made from wheats having the right characters and properly milled.

  11. In four days the flour specimens showed the same peculiar growth which, in two days, changed to the dark fawn color possessing the same characteristic odor.

  12. You will notice I allow seven pounds of flour to the gallon of water in the sponge, which makes it medium soft, causing it to show the drop good.

  13. Heat the flour over a bunson burner gently until brown.

  14. Facing the Arsenal is the Grenier de Reserve, on the Boulevard Bourdon, which is an immense storehouse for corn, grain and flour requisite for the consumption of Paris for four months.

  15. During period 2 the flour and malt soup were omitted from the diet, the same amount of milk and potassium carbonate being continued.

  16. Malt soup is prepared by dissolving the alkaline malt soup extract in water, and mixing wheat flour with milk.

  17. She sent it in a farmer's cart to St. Columb, and the farmer's man who took it for her brought back a great big bag of flour and some more wool to spin.

  18. The supply of flour is getting pretty well used up, and I may have to clear out to-morrow afternoon or the next day to go to Antwerp and negotiate to have some supplies sent down for the relief of the civil population.

  19. I may have to get away any minute for Antwerp, to see if we cannot arrange to get flour down here for the city.

  20. Flour is getting so high we can barely afford it, and even corn meal gets dearer every day.

  21. When the flour gave out in the barrel last night, I knew something would happen.

  22. She remembered the empty flour barrel, and the falling fence rails, and the habit of a merciful Providence that invariably came to her aid at the eleventh hour.

  23. It was twirled round and round till it was nearly twisted out of the ground; and the bag of flour was used with great gusto in powdering the backs and heads of all who could be coaxed within the vicinity.

  24. Quintains, however, she was determined to have, and had poles and swivels and bags of flour prepared accordingly.

  25. Nor was he more encouraged than had been Mr Thorne, by the idea of being attacked from behind by the bag of flour which Miss Thorne had graphically described to him.

  26. She offered to them good honest household cake, made of currants and flour and eggs and sweetmeat; but they would feed themselves on trashy wafers from the shop of the Barchester pastry-cook, on chalk and gum and adulterated sugar.

  27. It was also calculated that if the rider did not maintain his pace, he would get a blow from the flour bag just at the back of his head, and bear about him the signs of his awkwardness to the great amusement of the lookers-on.

  28. The pole and cross-bar and the swivel, and the target and the bag of flour were all complete.

  29. Three or four young farmers were turning the machine round and round, and poking at the bag of flour in a manner not at all intended by the inventor of the game; but no mounted sportsmen were there.

  30. Harry Greenacre did not object to being powdered with flour in the service of his mistress, and therefore gallantly touched his steed with his spur, having laid his lance in rest to the best of his ability.

  31. Mrs. Cameron and Jenny built a fire in the yard, and when they had all breakfasted on the scorched bread and some tea, Mrs. Cameron wanted to put flour on the Schoolmaster's burn.

  32. There's sure to be flour and some oatmeal about.

  33. There's corned meat and oatmeal and flour for a year.

  34. She was out getting the flour and bacon she wanted from it by the light of a lantern, when, with a rattling of horns and a thunder of hoofs, the cattle beat past her along the track behind the sheds.

  35. The house was in order, Davey bathed, and put in his basket in the sun, and Mary was making bread of the little flour and meal left in the bags, when Steve awoke.

  36. There's very little flour left, and only a small piece of corned meat.

  37. The superintendent said to me, "They have plenty of every thing; they have often several bags of flour in the house at once; no man can say they are wronged.

  38. A barrel of flour weighs on an average two hundred and sixteen pounds.

  39. After the goods were unloaded and the stock rested up for a few days, the train was started back to Salt Lake City to load with flour and bacon.

  40. This was the first train of the season, and when it arrived flour was worth one dollar per pound, bacon fifty cents, and everything else in proportion.

  41. Flour was then worth twenty-five dollars per hundred, bacon forty cents a pound, and other things in proportion.

  42. Enough flour and pemmican for another mess of rubaboo.

  43. On this they spread an empty flour sack, cut open at the side.

  44. A little salt, pemmican, and flour would be all the supplies he needed to take with them.

  45. One half cup of butter creamed with one cup of sugar until very light, add one half cupful of milk and one and one half cups of flour sifted with one teaspoon of baking powder.

  46. One half cup melted butter, one cup hot water, cup flour, stir the flour into the water and butter while boiling.

  47. One cupful each of molasses, bread crumbs, water, flour and currants and raisins or dates.

  48. Let one large pint of milk come to a boil, add one cup of sugar and one third cup of flour mixed with the beaten yolks of three eggs; three fourths cake of sweet chocolate.

  49. Stir in flour to make a thick batter one yeast cake that has been soaked well in water.

  50. When done take out meat, add one tablespoon of flour to a little cold water to thicken gravy.

  51. Use swansdown cake flour to make a nice smooth dough.

  52. Beat yolks of two eggs light, add one half cup milk and one cup of flour sifted with one fourth teaspoon of salt.

  53. Make a thick paste of flour and water and spread it an inch thick on the roast.

  54. Mix yolks and whites lightly together and cut in the flour that has been sifted with the cream of tartar.

  55. Mix the flour and sugar together, add boiling water, put on the stove and let come to a boil, then add butter, yolks of two eggs, juice and grated rind of one lemon.

  56. One and one half cups of sugar, creamed with one half cup butter, yolks of three eggs, one half cup milk, one square chocolate melted in half cup boiling water, two cups flour sifted with two heaping teaspoons baking powder.

  57. Advertisement: Asbury Quality Grocery Store Telephone 46 and 87 This is the flour I use for cakes.

  58. One and a half quarts vinegar, thicken with cup mustard, same amount of flour and cup sugar and a tablespoon of curry powder rubbed to paste in water, add one half cup melted butter, stir well and bottle while hot.

  59. There was always flour and meat to be had, generally tobacco, and sometimes even the luxury of a nobbler.

  60. When they sat down to dinner Baldy took some flour and sprinkled it all over his meat.

  61. There are several stations here, at which they sell flour at $1.

  62. They found on the river a large train, the men of which were feeding flour to their mules.

  63. Casson brought up some bread and flour from Mundesley, and Mr. Edwards brought two loaves of bread and three samples of flour from Aylmerton, and they were laid on the table for the Guardians to inspect.

  64. To prove the poorness of the quality of flour allowed by Boards of Guardians I obtained some of this flour and I also bought some of the best flour sold on the market.

  65. On settling down to work we found the outdoor relief allowed by this Board was as follows: Aged couples, one stone of flour and 2s.

  66. He, Mr. Edwards, had been very careful to bring flour as well as bread, and he had also got bread and flour from different persons so that it could not be said that it was all of one make and was the fault of the maker.

  67. I presented cases, giving the names of aged couples living together and only receiving one stone of flour and 2s.

  68. Casson: "I have brought a sample of the bread and flour here, and I will ask any Guardian if he thinks it is fit for human food, and are we as Guardians going to sit quietly by and see our poor served with such stuff as this?

  69. The result of this exposure was the stopping of all relief in kind so far as flour was concerned.

  70. She was sure it was not the fault of the maker nor yet of the yeast, but of the flour; and she would challenge anyone that had any knowledge of flour to prove that the flour produced was good.

  71. Add to the fat two dessert- spoonsful of flour and let it cook gently for five minutes, adding a good pint of water.

  72. Mix together with flour so as to thicken.

  73. HARE To be put in a pan in the oven: sauce, butter, and a quarter of a pint of cream, pepper, salt and some flour to thicken the sauce.

  74. Take flour and butter and melt them to a thick sauce, adding a tumbler of water and Liebig which will turn your sauce brown.

  75. Stir constantly, and if the vegetable becomes dry, moisten with more flour and milk.

  76. Before serving, bind the sauce with a little flour and pour all over the meat.

  77. Make a brown sauce of flour and butter, and add the meat to it.

  78. Then prepare some feculina flour in the following way: Take for five or six persons nearly a pint of milk.

  79. A simple variety is made with flour and milk instead of cream, the liquor of the oysters as well as the oysters, and a beaten egg added at the last moment.

  80. Make a roux--that is, melt some butter in a pan, adding flour little by little and stirring until it goes a brown color.

  81. Make a sauce of flour and butter in a pan, adding gravy if you happen to have it, but failing that, use water and vinegar in equal parts to thin it; season with pepper and salt and a small spoonful of anchovy sauce.

  82. If the sauce is not thick enough, add to it a little flour which has been first mixed with some cold water.

  83. Then make a very good white sauce of flour and butter and milk, adding cheese to flavor it strongly, and the yolk of an egg.

  84. As an effort of cooking it could hardly be termed a success, but was a sort of porridge, composed of flour and rice sweetened with molasses.

  85. At one time the Confederate government experimented with a mixture of cowpea flour and wheat flour, for the making of a nourishing hard tack.

  86. They could hit the head of a flour barrel more often than miss, unless the gunner got rattled.

  87. Then let them take a young bull, and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.

  88. I'm pretty near ready to go out hunting porcupines or gophers, for flour and tea and a little bacon rind leave a fellow rather hungry.

  89. The flour she's getting mighty low, and not much pork now, and the tea she's 'bout gone.


  90. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abrade; alabaster; beat; bran; chalk; crumb; crumble; crush; disintegrate; dot; dredge; dust; fallout; farina; filings; fleece; flour; foam; fragment; grain; granulate; grate; grind; grit; groat; ivory; lint; maggot; mash; meal; milk; mill; paper; pearl; pepper; pestle; pound; powder; pulverize; rasping; sawdust; scrunch; shard; sheet; shred; silver; smash; smut; snow; soot; spatter; speck; splatter; spot; sprinkle; squash; stud; swan; white


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    flour and; flour enough; flour mill; flour them; floured board; floured cloth; flourished about; flourishing condition