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plain flour

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noun

  1. flour to which no raising agent has been added

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The possible answers were plain flour, salted butter, egg yolk and double cream.

From BBC Apr. 26, 2026

A spinach wrap in place of plain flour.

From Salon Jun. 18, 2025

True, the very best flour to use is specialist '00' flour, but plain flour works perfectly well in a pinch.

From BBC Feb. 13, 2023

Add the plain flour and chopped peanuts, and work everything together by mashing it under the back of the spoon.

From The Guardian Nov. 21, 2015

It is a cracker prepared of plain flour and water, not even salted, and kiln-dried to a chip, so as to keep indefinitely, its only enemies being weevils.

From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

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