branny

Pastry chef Roxana Jullapat has a trick if the flour is really branny: She adds a pinch of baking soda to the dough, which helps, Jullapat says, "to 'cook' all that bran."

They are generally followed by branny desquamation of the cuticle in the position they have occupied.

DEFINITION.—Measles is an acute infectious disease involving the skin and mucous membranes, characterized by successive stages and a maculo-papular eruption, which terminates in a fine branny desquamation.

On the third or fourth Day of the Eruption, the Redness diminishes; the Spots, or very small Pustules, dry up and fall off in very little branny Scales; the Cuticle, or superficial Skin also shrivels off; and is replaced by one succeeding beneath it.

The wheat berry being broken up and triturated in one operation, the flour necessarily contained a large proportion of branny particles in which cerealin, an active diastasic constituent, was present in very sensible proportions.