Flour

 is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts or seeds.

Quotes

 * Quando la gente non avea farina, Lo re diceva : Mangiate pollanie.
 * Francesco Dall'Ongaro, Stornelli Politici, "Cera una volta".
 * Translation: When that the people cried they had no flour. Eat poultry, was the answer of the king.
 * Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 397.


 * There are four types among those who sit before the sages: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer and the sieve. [...] The sieve rejects the coarse flour and retains the fine flour.
 * Pirkei Avot 5:15


 * While you still have light, grind the flour.
 * Sumerian proverb, Collection III at,.