Flour shortage
On 4/23/2020 10:53 AM, graham wrote:
> On 2020-04-23 6:43 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 1:32:59 PM UTC-4, S Viemeister wrote:
>>> I haven't been able to get bread flour for the past month and a half,
>>> but I did manage to snag a 10 kilo sack of chapati flour, which I had
>>> never used before. I made my first loaf with it today, using 250g whole
>>> wheat flour and 300g of the chapati. It rose well, baked nicely, and
>>> tastes good. The only difference was that it required 20g more water
>>> than I usually use for this recipe (fits a 4x12 pan).
>>
>> I checked when I went to the grocery store this morning.Â* It was
>> pretty bare.Â* A pallet of all-purpose flour (a brand I've never
>> heard of, from Canada:Â* Rose-something), a couple stray bags of
>> Pillsbury, and a few sacks of organic King Arthur.Â* No bread flour
>> at all.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
> 5 Roses AP flour. It's a good brand with a ~12% protein content that
> means that you can make decent bread with it.
I may be silly to get into this thread since I haven't baked bread for
years. I do remember both of my grandmother's baking bread and have
used their recipes. They didn't have anything other than AP flour to
work with and the loaves were very tasty.
Jill
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