flour

In Brazil they couldn’t grow wheat for a time, and before they were importing it, they were relying on cassava flour everywhere.

They still buy flour and coffee, but not much else.

We need water and we need food, which the yeast gets from the simple sugars found in most flours.

WILTON, Calif. — On a balmy day last week south of Sacramento, a group of women took turns grinding and preparing acorn flour, and then used fire-heated stones to cook it with water in woven baskets.

“It was hard to tell what they lined the field with, if it was flour or chalk,” Fouts said.