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Category: Flour

Flour looks simple until the recipe and the store use different names for the same thing. Which flour does your recipe actually need? starts from what the dough must do, then explains all-purpose, bread, cake, pastry and self-rising flour, whole wheat, alternative flours, and why Italian 00 classifies refinement rather than strength. It also corrects three common shortcuts and closes with the FDA warning that raw flour is a raw food, so no tasting the batter. Insect ingredients in food: read the label, skip the panic. covers the other question this aisle raises, separating intentional ingredients from carmine coloring and from accidental fragments.

Flour looks simple until the recipe and the store use different names for the same thing. Which flour does your recipe actually need? starts from what the dough must do, then explains all-purpose, bread, cake, pastry and self-rising flour, whole wheat, alternative flours, and why Italian 00 classifies refinement rather than strength. It also corrects three common shortcuts and closes with the FDA warning that raw flour is a raw food, so no tasting the batter. Insect ingredients in food: read the label, skip the panic. covers the other question this aisle raises, separating intentional ingredients from carmine coloring and from accidental fragments.