My old lady friends and I were baking some yummy biscotti yesterday and became amazingly intrigued with the power of flour. I mean flour is the base to BREAD. All bread. Flour is an incredible thing. And you know what?? All the poetry in the world only talks about the cool and pretty "flower." So, here is a fine dedication to the honest,wholesome FLOUR-- the foundation of any baked good in the whole wide world. All you bakers out there, brace yourself, this is a pretty powerful dedication:
FLOUR
Oh you small little bits of grainy stuff in the bowl,
You have such soft and fluffy power to which you hold!
I know we all think of you as dull, white and distinctively bland,
But you deliver such a product of yumminess- it's hard to withstand!
What are you really, though, flour---wheat and chemicals churned together?
And yet you are the base to these fine treats that we heavenly savor.
So, THANK YOU flour-- you may not be noticed or even realized,
Because without you, bread would just be a lump of crap in some disguise.
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