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Prag explains that quinoa flour bakes similarly to oat flour, creating a denser, more crumbly texture.

Tasters found it “crumbly,” “dusty,” “sandy” and “almost like shortbread.”

Then, you dump the flour in and use a fork or your fingers, mixing until you get crumbly dough that comes together when you press it with your fingers.

We threw in a spoiler crumbly cookie into all of the shipping methods, to see how much of a risk it is.

From Eater

Add more cream or stock, 1 tablespoon at a time, if it is dry or crumbly.

Add the butter and mix it on low speed until the mixture is crumbly.

However, the crumbly texture helps make it a sinfully delicious topping for yogurt.

Granted, without eggs to help bind it together, it's a bit more crumbly than your average cake.

Add the meat and cook, breaking it up with a fork, until it has lost its pink color and is evenly crumbly.

Its tip was not metal, but chipped stone—crumbly, like the arrow-heads.

I found it porous and crumbly, and no heavier than so much chalk.

This extract rapidly gets hard, crumbly, and mouldy by keeping.

They bought a piece of it, a crumbly piece, with five shillings before they went away.

"Down this side, I think," he said, and they swung the lantern over the Grande Grève slope below the bit of crumbly pathway.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to crumbly, such as: powdery, soft, breakable, corroded, crisp, and crunchy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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