Yes, but depending on what you are making, the finished texture may be a little coarser than if it were made with all purpose flour. Don't, however, try to bake a cake with bread flower.
Almond flour is mainly used in recipes that involve pastries and bread. Almond flour can provide a unique flavor from regular pastries and bread. It also contains lower carbs than regular flour.
Yes. Pretty much. The difference in the two flours is the ability to form gluten. Bread flour is ground from a different variety of wheat, and produces more gluten when kneaded and so is of greater value when making bread. As you do not knead cookie dough, it doesn't come into play, and for the the most part cookie recipes are not that critical. Do not use bread flour for making cakes when cake flour is called for. Cakes are different animals altogether and proper ingredients are critical, and you cannot substitute a hard wheat flour for the soft cake flour, (which produces almost no gluten.)
You can use other types of flour. (White, wheat, bread, cake, ect.)
Bread flour or self-rising flour It depends on the recipe
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People who want recipes to use in their bread machine.
Standard-grade flour makes weaker dough and suitable for cakes and biscuits (contains approx. 10% protein); high-grade flour makes stronger dough and suitable for bread and general baking (contains approx 11% protein).
Yes and no. You can use a regular bread recipe, but you will need to make sure that you are adding the ingredients in the order and at the temperature recommended by the maker of your bread machine.
Pretty much. There are different types of flour, and bread flour is considered the best for making it, but you can bake bread with just about any type of flour.
"Baking flour" is not a familiar designation. "Bread flour" has more gluten than "all-purpose" flour, and is the best choice for bread, but "all-purpose" flour is perfectly acceptable and should produce a successful bread dough. "Cake flour" has less gluten, and is formulated for cakes and other products where a tender crumb is desired. Breads made with cake flour might not rise properly.
You use a regular bread recipe and substitute half of the flour with whole wheat flour.
There are as many as 30 types of protein in wheat flour, but only two of those are important for our purposes: gliaden and glutenin. When they come in contact with moisture (water, milk, etc.) and are stirred, they produce gluten which gives elasticity, strength and shape to baking recipes. Different types of flour contain different amounts of protein. Selection criteria for flour for a recipe is based primarily on the end result you are trying to achieve; you do not want to use a high protein bread flour to make a cake or it will change its texture to dense. Conversely, when baking bread and you use cake flour, is too soft and has little gluten-forming proteins. This will cause the bread to fall because it requires a stronger structure that can trap the gases created by yeast, allowing the bread to rise. When it comes to cookies, gluten adds chewiness.