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I recently became addicted to making and baking in my kitchen!
With some of the recipes, it asks for all purpose flour ( I assume plain flour) and hard flour, which I can only assume is bread flour. Is hard flour bread flour?
Can someone explain flours to me?
Thanks heaps!
I'm pretty sure all purpose flour is just plain flour. No idea about hard flour though, i've never come across it.
All purpose is plain flour and hard flour is flour with a higher gluten content and is used in pizzas and breads.
That's interesting, I"m guessing hard flour = strong flour. KR, i thought the difference was that strong flour has more PROTEIN and that's why you get a better textured loaf when you're doing bread, pizza, etc.
On the topic of flour, do you baking guru's think it makes a difference if I use No Name Vs. a Brand Name? I am about to make a special cake, and I want it to be delish
I only really wanted to know, so I could bake the recipe! :) What do I purchase at the supermarket? (in regards to hard/strong flour...)
What is the recipe for? Is it for bread? Or a Cake? Thats how I'd look at it. Anchor make flours specific to different recipes. And yes Hard flour is often high protein flour, like bread/pizza flour :) I have many many flours LOL and I will use my Anchor Bread/Pizza flour as hard flour.
I bake according to recipe as well, so I make pizza's again tonight and used pizza flour and I made pretzels earlier to day I used plain flour and pizza flour for that bready goodness...
I use cheapo flour and add an extra teaspoon or so of baking powder, just for the lift. Always get fluffy cakes and scones.:
