Flour in 1878 at the Washburn "A" Mill in Minneapolis which killed 22 people. Bread, pasta, crackers, many cakes, and many other foods are made using flour. Wheat flour is also used to make a roux as a base for thickening gravy and sauces. It can also be used as an ingredient in papier-mâché glue. Cornstarch is a principal ingredient used to thicken many puddings or desserts, and is the main ingredient in packaged custard. Flour Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains or roots and used to make many different foods. Cereal flour is the main ingredient of
Butter cake Butter cake A butter cake is a cake in which one of the main ingredients is butter. Butter cake is baked with basic ingredients: butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and leavening agents such as baking powder or baking soda. It is considered as one of the quintessential cakes in American baking. Butter cake originated from the English pound cake, which traditionally used equal amounts of butter, flour, sugar, and eggs to bake a heavy, rich cake. The invention of baking powder and other chemical leavening agents during the 19th century substantially increased the flexibility of this traditional pound cake by introducing