What is 'all purpose flour'?!
I'm in U!.K!. and we have plain flour (no raising agent) self raising flour (with raising agent) and strong flour (for bread making)!.
I have been searching for biscuit recipes on Yahoo Answers but they all seem to say to use all purpose flour!. What is that!? Is it one of the above or should I be able to find all purpose flour!?
If anyone has an easy basic plain biscuit recipe I'd be grateful also!. One that I can either leave plain or just add raisins, chocolate chips, ground ginger or pipe a little icing on the top!. I'm looking for a biscuit recipe that will be slightly crisp but not dry like a Rich Tea biscuit!. Hope I'm explaining my needs well enough here!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I have been searching for biscuit recipes on Yahoo Answers but they all seem to say to use all purpose flour!. What is that!? Is it one of the above or should I be able to find all purpose flour!?
If anyone has an easy basic plain biscuit recipe I'd be grateful also!. One that I can either leave plain or just add raisins, chocolate chips, ground ginger or pipe a little icing on the top!. I'm looking for a biscuit recipe that will be slightly crisp but not dry like a Rich Tea biscuit!. Hope I'm explaining my needs well enough here!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Answers:
All-purpose flour is made from a blend of high- and low-gluten wheats, and has a bit less protein than bread flour — 11% or 12% vs!. 13% or 14%!. You can always substitute all-purpose flour for bread flour, although your results may not be as glorious as you had hoped!. There are many recipes, however, where the use of bread flour in place of all-purpose will produce a tough, chewy, disappointing result!. Cakes, for instance, are often made with all-purpose flour, but would not be nearly as good made with bread flour!.
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There is also a table in this wikipedia site which might help you understand better or well, the whole article might help you understand better;
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Flour
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There is also a table in this wikipedia site which might help you understand better or well, the whole article might help you understand better;
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Flour
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All purpose flour is same as Plain flour in UK!. All purpose flour is blend of flours, positioned in between cake flour and bread flour!. It has lower protein than bread flour but higher protein than cake flour!. The coarseness is also positioned in the middle of cake flour and bread flour!.
All purpose flour is made of endosperm (starch) of the wheat berry!. It has no bran or germ
It is available as bleached or un-bleached!. It is also available with baking powder sifted in, called self rising flour!.
It is good for making cookies, dinner rolls, muffins, gravy!. You can make cakes, but cake flour is preferred!. You can make bread, but bread flour is preferred!.
UK versus USA
Plain flour = All Purpose flour
Self raising flour = Self rising flour
Strong flour = Bread flour
The cookie in USA is the biscuit in UK!. The biscuit in USA is just a dinner roll!.
Now use your recipes!. I hope the explanation is useful!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
All purpose flour is made of endosperm (starch) of the wheat berry!. It has no bran or germ
It is available as bleached or un-bleached!. It is also available with baking powder sifted in, called self rising flour!.
It is good for making cookies, dinner rolls, muffins, gravy!. You can make cakes, but cake flour is preferred!. You can make bread, but bread flour is preferred!.
UK versus USA
Plain flour = All Purpose flour
Self raising flour = Self rising flour
Strong flour = Bread flour
The cookie in USA is the biscuit in UK!. The biscuit in USA is just a dinner roll!.
Now use your recipes!. I hope the explanation is useful!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
If I remember correctly, it's the American way of saying plain flour!.
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http://www!.cdkitchen!.com/features/glossa!.!.!.
WARNING!! If anyone googles for a definition, watch out for the sites you go to!. One of them is mostly numbers in the address and wanted me to download an exe program!.!.!.!. a virus maybe!?!?!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
all purpose flour is basically flour u can use to make anything like cookies of muffins of biscuits its all in the name
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It's plain flour!.!.!. I think!. That's what I use when making cakes and they turn out okay!.Www@FoodAQ@Com