The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SEMOLINA
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result SEMOLINA
- So menial prepared grain product
- Woman must go without instant dessert
- Girl consuming second course of meal?
- Class hasn’t finished eating most of old pudding
- Hard grains in meal so rough
- Dish with wheat base is no meal for cooking
- A lemon is lost in pud
- A lemon is prepared for dessert
- A lemon is liquidised in pudding
- Cooked sole, main food
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The straight part
We know that "Dish with wheat base" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dish with wheat base = semolina.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SEMOLINA mean?
SEMOLINA noun- Coarse grains produced at an intermediate stage of wheat flour milling.
- Such grains, usually from hard wheat, used in the preparation of pasta, couscous and various sweet dishes.
- A soft dessert made by boiling a mixture of semolina, sugar and flavourings in milk.