What sort of flour should I use in my breadmaker?!
Answers: I recently bought a breadmaker...but I can't find any special bread flour in my supermarket. Someone mentioned that it depends what the percentage of protien is in your bread. Mine has about 11.2% (I worked it out before..), will that do?
They say you should make bread with "bread flour" but I have found that "all purpose" flour works best. This is the regular flour you can buy in a grocery store. It works best for breadmakers or recipes made by hand.
If you prefer whole wheat flour you can use that too with the proper recipe.
Good Luck
Your breadmaker should have come with a list of instructions and even some recipes and you can find recipes online as well. Unless the recipe or the breadmaker instructions tell you specifically to use one type of flour (like specialty flour made only for breadmakers) just use whatever flour is called for in the recipe. I have had a breadmaker for 10 years and I mostly use all-purpose flour like I do for all my other recipes. Occasionally a recipe will call for bread flour, but in general, you can substitute all-purpose for bread flour in a pinch.
I use regular unbleached flour - doesn't change a thing. Same for the yeast - just the regular.
I make bread several times a week and I use plain flour....not bread or cake....I do it by hand but i doubt it will make a great deal of difference....
11.2% sounds fine you will find that the higher the protien content is the better the chew the bread will have 11.2 sounds real high for A/p and GOOD for bread.! I use Gold Medal "Harvest King" with great results 11.0 or so %