Meanings
- uncommonuncountableSynonym of cornflour.
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1907 August 19, “Corn Statistics”, in Mark Lane Express, Agricultural Journal and Live Stock Record, London, →OCLC, “Review of the British Corn Trade during the Past Week” supplement, page iii, column 25 more examples
At the Tushins one may sometimes buy some bread of maizeflour and some onions, very rarely some rice.
1886 November 15, Ad. Sulima of Ulanowski, “Some Notions about Caucasus. III.”, in Fritz Rühl, editor, Societas entomologica, 1st year, number 15, Zürich-Hottingen: […] Fritz Rühl […] [Printed by] Aschmann & Bollmann […], →OCLC, page 114, column 1The export of maize amounted to 300,904 tons, leaving an excess import of 701,603 tons, which serves for sundry manufactures and for fodder. The export is mainly directed to the German hinterland. Maizeflour is not imported here.
1915, H[endrik] Blink, “Cereals”, in Trade of the Netherlands (A General View of the Netherlands; number XVI, Science; 8), [Leiden]: […] [Eduard Ydo] […] for the P. P. I. E. 1915 under direction of the Commercial Department of the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce at The Hague, →OCLC, “Home Produce” section, subsection C (Sundry Commodities), page 70Scald the milk in a double boiler with the cinnamon. Mix sugar and flour or maizeflour. Add hot milk slowly, stirring well.
1948 September, Lois Cook, “Recipes from South Africa”, in Blanche Stover, editor, Practical Home Economics, Incorporating Better Food, volume XXVI, number 7, East Stroudsburg, Pa.: Lakeside Publishing Company, →OCLC, “Better Food and School Lunch” section, “Old Dutch Milk Tart” recipe, page 474, column 2Certain standards for admission to the new era have been established: average income, educational level, the possession of shoes, and the consumption of wheaten bread instead of—or in addition to—the maizeflour cakes.
1967, Walter Hanf, translated by Eamonn J. Doyle, “And Hunger Tomorrow?”, in Mexico, [Chicago, Ill.]: Rand McNally & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 75–76A roast turkey with satsivi came next, and with it a high-piled dish of ghome, which is maizeflour porridge cooked for hours over a slow fire.
1972, Helen Papashvily, George Papashvily, the Editors of Time-Life Books, “A Mountain Picnic on a Grand Scale”, in The Cooking of Russia, revised edition, [Amsterdam]: Time-Life International (Nederland) N.V., →OCLC, chapter VI (The Caucasus: A Mountain World), page 159Synonyms: cornflour
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of cornflour.
Origin
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