It will also be used to buy them vital supplies of bread and flour.

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Not for me the little paper bags containing small boxes of tablets, no, it's great bulky plastic bags of bread, flour, pasta and pizza bases.

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The government broke with economic orthodoxy and introduced a subsidy for wheat flour to keep bread prices low.

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There is no milk, no yoghurt, no flour to make bread.

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As a scientist, she was obsessed with discovering how to make perfect French bread with American all-purpose flour in an American oven.

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One or just a few companies still dominate the production of goods such as cement, glass, soft drinks, flour, sugar, and bread.

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The bakery is limiting purchases of bread to four loaves per purchase until the supply of flour stabilizes.

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For example, a baker might pay five cents VAT on flour and collect 25 cents VAT on the bread he sells, remitting 20 cents to the government.

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The government has donated 11 tonnes of flour to the Jewish community this year to make unleavened bread for Passover.

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It's a bit like a wheat farmer turning his wheat into flour and selling it on to a bakery to make bread.

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Good bakeries will offer a variety of bread, including a baguette tradition, an artisan-made loaf containing just four ingredients (flour, water, yeast, salt) and no additives.

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