plain flour

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   flour that does not contain a raising agent

   Broaderflour

   United Kingdom

Questions about plain flour

What does plain flour mean?

plain flour means "flour that does not contain a raising agent".

Is plain flour a common word?

plain flour is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.