What is the difference between all purpose and bread flour?!
What is the difference between all purpose and bread flour?
Answers:
tony --- all purpose flour is not as strong as bread flour. protean wise and has far less gluten. Bread flour is milled from a hard winter wheat . all purpose flour is milled from a blend of summer wheat and hard winter wheat. ( Bread flour is to be used in making bread and bread rolls it is also used in a few pastries like cream puffs and eclaires. All purpose flour can be used in most pastries and most bread recipes.
I hope this will answer your( ? ) jim b
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Retired baker
Different size of grains & gluten levels.
Different flours will have different densities when baked and give different texture.
Oft times, all purpose and bread flours can be interchanged. Those to are very similar.