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- From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
- Subject: Re: Another bread flour question
- Message-ID: <5ELMO59@taronga.com>
- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
- References: <1992Dec29.131259.58934@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Dec30.184821.25930@sunova.ssc.gov>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:51:48 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <1992Dec30.184821.25930@sunova.ssc.gov>, jbaron@higgs.ssc.gov (Jeff Baron) writes:
- > Anthony Datri writes:
- > - Beware that whole wheat flour, while a fine thing, is low in gluten, so
- > - to get a good loaf it's best to either dump in some extra gluten, or
- > - use, say, 2/3 bread flour and 1/3 whole wheat.
- >
- > I've made numerous loaves of bread using Whole Foods whole wheat flour,
- > even some rye loaves, with no white flour and no gluten. I've never
- > had a problem with low gluten content, or no rising, or anything of
- > that nature. Personally, I think that bread flour is just another
- > product in a market that is hungry for different products.
-
- Anthony is correct.
-
- Bread flour is made up of hard wheat which is high in gluten or is
- regular flour with gluten added. All-purpose flour is a mix of hard
- and soft wheats. Most of your specialy flours are low in gluten.
- Either add extra gluten or mix with all-purpose or bread flour in
- these proportions:
-
- barley 1:5 (one cup barley flour to 5 cups bread flour)
- buckwheat 1:5
- corn 1:5
- gluten 2:1
- millet 1:5
- oat 1:3
- rice 1:5
- dark rye 1:1
- medium rye 2:1
- soy 1:5
- triticale 1:1
- whole-wheat 1:1
-
- Tonight I went to Whole Foods (is there a Whole Foods in every city?)
- and got a whole bunch of bulk flours (after I tossed out the bad
- whole wheat flour). Right now I have a bowl of flour waiting to be
- made into bread. It has 1 cup rice flour, 1 cup whole wheat, 1 cup
- oat, 1 cup unbleached white and 2 1/2 cups bread flour in it.
- Should be good.
-
- --
- Stephanie da Silva arielle@taronga.com
-