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Gluten

noun

A protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains; gives cohesiveness to dough.

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... must be observed, that the particles of water themselves, and of animal gluten dissolved in water, as the glue used by carpenters, slide easier over each other by an additional quantity of ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... advice," continued Mr. Lott; "try vegetarianism. In the morning, a little oatmeal. Wonderfully strengthening stuff, oatmeal: look at the Scotch. For dinner, beans. Why, do you know there's more nourishment in half a pint of lentil beans than in a pound of beefsteak—more gluten. That's what you want, more gluten; no corpses, no dead bodies. Why, I've known young fellows, vegetarians, who have lived like fighting cocks on sevenpence a day. Seven times seven are forty-nine. How much do you ...

— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome

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