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PATENT WHEAT FLOUR [1 record]

Record 1 2008-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
  • Breadmaking
DEF

A high-grade wheat flour that is free from bran, embryo, and aleurone and that consists wholly of endosperm of sound wheat grains usually with outer parts of the endosperm removed.

CONT

The purest flour, selected from the purest flour streams released in the mill, is often called patent flour. It has very low mineral (or ash) content and is remarkably free from traces specks and other impurities.

OBS

Term used at the Canadian Grain Commission.

Key term(s)
  • patent wheat flour

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minoterie et céréales
  • Boulangerie
CONT

Une farine très blanche est dite farine «fleur», ou farine supérieure; elle provient directement de la première mouture, une fois ôtées les semoules et les issues.

OBS

Termes en usage à la Commission canadienne des grains.

Spanish

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