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Flour is a cooking powder that is made by grinding a variety of different substances; beans, roots, grains, nuts and seeds. Flour is often associated with bread, and wheat flour is one of the most important ingredients in many cuisines, but there are far more versions of flour than that. Flour, as well as being used to make a variety of different breads it is used to make cakes and pastries, wit different types of flour having different ingredients and sometimes leavening agents included.
Wheat is, as mentioned, one of the most important types of flour and it has been made for at least 8,000 years, making it one of the oldest processed foods around. Flour is typically made by crushing it beneath millstones, and flour mills have been one of the major recipients in improvements in industrial technology, from hand or animal powered to water- and windmills to steam powered mills.
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