maizeflour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From maize + flour.
Senses: examples: text: At the Tushins one may sometimes buy some bread of maizeflour and some onions, very rarely some rice.
ref: 1886 November 15, Ad. Sulima of Ulanowski, “Some Notions about Caucasus. III.”, in Fritz Rühl, editor, Societas entomologica, 1st year, number 15, Zürich-Hottingen: […] Fritz Rühl […] [Printed by] Aschmann & Bollmann […], →OCLC, page 114, column 1:
text: Flour ............sacks 16,000 / Maizeflour...... ,, / Riceflour ...... ,,
ref: 1907 August 19, “Corn Statistics”, in Mark Lane Express, Agricultural Journal and Live Stock Record, London, →OCLC, “Review of the British Corn Trade during the Past Week” supplement, page iii, column 2:
text: The export of maize amounted to 300,904 tons, leaving an excess import of 701,603 tons, which serves for sundry manufactures and for fodder. The export is mainly directed to the German hinterland. Maizeflour is not imported here.
ref: 1915, H[endrik] Blink, “Cereals”, in Trade of the Netherlands (A General View of the Netherlands; number XVI, Science; 8), [Leiden]: […] [Eduard Ydo] […] for the P. P. I. E. 1915 under direction of the Commercial Department of the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce at The Hague, →OCLC, “Home Produce” section, subsection C (Sundry Commodities), page 70:
text: Scald the milk in a double boiler with the cinnamon. Mix sugar and flour or maizeflour. Add hot milk slowly, stirring well.
ref: 1948 September, Lois Cook, “Recipes from South Africa”, in Blanche Stover, editor, Practical Home Economics, Incorporating Better Food, volume XXVI, number 7, East Stroudsburg, Pa.: Lakeside Publishing Company, →OCLC, “Better Food and School Lunch” section, “Old Dutch Milk Tart” recipe, page 474, column 2:
text: Certain standards for admission to the new era have been established: average income, educational level, the possession of shoes, and the consumption of wheaten bread instead of—or in addition to—the maizeflour cakes.
ref: 1967, Walter Hanf, translated by Eamonn J. Doyle, “And Hunger Tomorrow?”, in Mexico, [Chicago, Ill.]: Rand McNally & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 75–76:
text: A roast turkey with satsivi came next, and with it a high-piled dish of ghome, which is maizeflour porridge cooked for hours over a slow fire.
ref: 1972, Helen Papashvily, George Papashvily, the Editors of Time-Life Books, “A Mountain Picnic on a Grand Scale”, in The Cooking of Russia, revised edition, [Amsterdam]: Time-Life International (Nederland) N.V., →OCLC, chapter VI (The Caucasus: A Mountain World), page 159:
text: Their palate was still further regaled by confections and pastry, for which their maizeflour and sugar supplied ample materials.
ref: 1974 [1843], William H[ickling] Prescott, “Aztec Agriculture. - Mechanical Arts. - Merchants. - Domestic Manners.”, in The World of the Aztecs, New York, N.Y.: Tudor Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 99, column 1:
text: Supporting a freelance motion by Marsabit South MP Haji Adichareh, the MPs warned that wananchi in the low income bracket were experiencing hardship owing to the price increases of necessary foodstuffs such as bread, sugar, maizeflour and tea.
ref: 1979 August 11, Cornelius Nyamboki, James Kimondo, James Kuria, “MP’s Urge Government to Curb Rising Prices”, in Daily Nation, Nairobi, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4; republished in Sub-Saharan Africa Report (JPRS 74107), number 2147, Arlington, Va.: Joint Publications Research Service, 1979 August 29, →OCLC, page 86, column 1:
text: Migrant workers would travel home with supplies of dried meat, dried fish and maizeflour and use their wages to purchase additional food from local Indian merchants.
ref: 1980, Leroy Vail, Landeg White, “Frelimo’s Inheritance”, in Capitalism and Colonialism in Mozambique: A Study of Quelimane District, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 376:
text: Three typical dishes are mititei, chopped sausage; sarmale, spiced meat and rice in vine leaves or sauerkraut; and mamaliguta, maizeflour porridge.
ref: 1983, “Romanian Food”, in Travel Guide to Europe: What to See: A Catalog of Selected Travel Information, Falls Church, Va.: American Automobile Association, →OCLC, “Romania” section, page 435:
text: He sat down with a pleased smile, and accepted their tea and Molly’s maizeflour cakes as if he had never dined in any other way in his life.
ref: 1991, Deborah Miles, chapter 6, in Jealous Hearts (Masquerade Historical), Richmond, London: Mills & Boon, page 116:
text: Maizeflour (makke ka atta) ..... 20 gms / 4 tsp […] Reheat spinach purée, stir in the maizeflour and cook for 10 minutes.
ref: 1996, “Spinach with Cottage Cheese”, in Indian Cuisine: Vegetarian, Twickenham: Tiger Books International PLC, →ISBN, “Stir-fried Dishes” section, page 43:
text: Afterwards each of us was given a taste of the old life, a piece of bread made of rice husk and maizeflour, the staple food of the poor.
ref: 2003, Sun Shuyun, “Not a Man?”, in Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 281:
text: This is the music that pours out of apartment-block windows along with the smells of boiled chicken and maizeflour arepas.
ref: 2006, Chris Moss, The Rough Guide to Urban Latino (Music Rough Guides), London: World Music Network in association with Rough Guides, →ISBN, page [1], column 2:
text: 1 dstsp corn- or maizeflour dissolved in 1 tblsp water
ref: 2007, Tessa Buckley, “Liver and apple casserole HED LFD BBD (Serves 2)”, in The Multiple Sclerosis Diet Book (Overcoming Common Problems), London: Sheldon Press, →ISBN, chapter 7 (The recipes), page 92:
text: All this she speaks of with love and gratitude, pouring out beer and maizeflour in holy remembrance.
ref: 2015, Landeg White, “Carapinheira’s St George (and the Dragon)”, in Living in the Delta: New and Collected Poems, Cardigan, Ceredigion: Parthian, →ISBN, page 284:
glosses: Synonym of cornflour.
synonyms: word: cornflour