Any flour not made from wheat. Rice flour, for example.
Yes, wheat is used in bread because most flours are wheat based. However, there are non-wheat flours becoming more popular because of health or allergy restrictions. Many of your "typical" flours you see in the baking isle of your grocery store are going to be wheat based.Examples of Wheat Flour:All PurposeBreadCakeSemolinaWondraRye Flour (typically in the US rye flour is mixed with a wheat based flour because of poor gluten development from the Rye)Examples of Non-Wheat Flour:Corn meal/MasaBuckwheatRiceChickpeaTapioca
breads, flours made for cooking etc.
If you're talking about a quantity of a given flour, the word does not have a plural. 'Flour' is a non-count (i.e. collective) noun. If you're referring to two or more different types of flour, the plural is 'flours.' Example: "Combine the whole wheat and rye flours in a large bowl."
Different flours can be used interchangeably, although they will not produce identical products. White flour is a type of wheat flour that has all elements of the wheat grain removed except for the starchy inner part of the grain. It is usually chemically bleached to the preferred whiteness. Other types of wheat flour include unbleached white flour, whole wheat flour and cracked wheat flour. Bread flour is wheat flour with a higher percentage of gluten, while pastry flour is wheat flour with lower gluten. Self-rising flour is wheat flour to which salt and leavening ingredients are added. Some flours that can replace wheat flours are spelt flour, oat flour, rye flour, rice flour and corn flour. Each type of flour will have a distinctive taste and texture.
A good recipe for gluten free cupcakes will be one that doesn't include wheat flours, since wheat contains gluten.
Flour is made with wheat and depending on what wheat it is determines the color of the flour ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All flours eventually turn white by being bleached by light. Finer ground flours bleach faster. Different grains produce different color flours initially, from a yellowish white or pinkish white to a bright white.
Most flour is made from wheat, at least in the US and Canada. Other grains can also be used and some specialty flours are made from vegetables.
Its flour is excellent for breadmaking and can support weaker flours when combined with them in breads.
great globs of gluten
Yes, flour (wheat flour) comes from wheat, a grass. Other flours are made from other plants such as oats, barley, rye, corn, millet and more.
It is a hybrid of wheat and rye. Triticale berries are when they are whole grains. They are also available coarsely ground into flakes or finely ground into flours. It can be used to replace either wheat or rye in any recipe that calls for one of both.
the Mennonite farmers that settled the American Midwest brought with them from Russia a type of hard winter wheat that is known as "turkey red wheat". Hard Red Winter - Hard, brownish, mellow high-protein wheat used for bread, hard baked goods and as an adjunct in other flours to increase protein in pastry flour for pie crusts. Some brands of unbleached all-purpose flours are commonly made from hard red winter wheat alone. It is primarily traded by the Kansas City Board of Trade.