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1/ Since the start of our #covid19 #confinement in #France, I've gone back to making homemade #bread about 3 times per week, so between that and the book I'm reading on the history of bread, I'll leave some interesting tidbits here whenever the fancy strikes me.
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2/ First up: #DidYouKnow that the #French #blé was once the general word for any #cereal crop ("plante qui produit le grain dont on fait le pain"), much like the 🇬🇧 #English #corn ("any of various cereal plants")?
To talk about wheat, the word was (and remains) "froment".
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To talk about wheat, the word was (and remains) "froment".
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3/ You know flour and flower are pronounced alike, but #DidYouKnow that the similarity is related to the fact that #flour was once spelled "flower", i.e. "the finer portion of ground grain"?
Not coincidentally, the #French term is "fleur de farine" ("flour flower"). ⤵️
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Not coincidentally, the #French term is "fleur de farine" ("flour flower"). ⤵️
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