Don't quote me on it, but I think it's healthier...
Use wholemeal flour instead of white - OR - replace some of the white flour with bran.
You can use self raising flour, wholemeal flour or wholemeal self raising flour or even yeast.
to make it healthier and help the digestive system
YEs you can
You can but it has to have at least a 1/4 wholemeal ( the wholemeal it high in gluten which makes the bread separate into two sort of layers)( like pita) so the answer is a sort of.
well obviously yes. the flour is made up of the whole of the wheat including the part with all the fibre in it. if you take a look at wholemeal flour it has bits in it when you sieve it. that's the fibre.Yes, but wholemeal shouldn't be confused with wholewheat. Wholemeal flour contains around 85% of the grain and produces a bread that contains more fibre than white flour. Wholewheat includes all of the grain and provides more fibre than white and wholemeal. Wholewheat flour makes a denser loaf with less available gluten to aid rising of the dough, hence the more popular use of wholemeal.
If you add baking powder so what you are making will rise. If you look through most recipes, most use 1 teaspoon of baking powder for each cup of flour. By using whole wheat flour, the finished product will be heavier with a coarser texture. If you are using all whole wheat flour with no white flour, I would use 1 1/4 teaspoons of baking powder per cup of flour. A lot of whole wheat recipes will use half whole wheat, half white.
"White flour" is wheat flour, it's just been processed in a slightly different way. It's perfectly fine to use whole wheat flour instead of white flour in a pizza crust.
make your own self rising flour. You will need: 1 cup all purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon baking soda mix all , yield 1 cup selfrising flour
Yes, it is. white flour used to make white bread is bleached and processed (some countries use nasty chemicals to do this). The Brown flour is much less refined, and a more 'natural' product. White bread may also contain more sugars and additives. This is, of course, subject to which brand of bread you buy! Read the label, the less confusing chemical names in the list and the higher up the list the flour and water is, the better.
Flour oftentimes goes through a process known as bleaching. This makes the white baking flour most people are accustomed to and which they like to use in baking; however, while this makes the flour more suitable to common baked goods, it also strips much of the nutritional value from the flour. By not doing the bleaching process, you retain the whole wheat aspect of the flour, making it healthier and heartier.
Use wholemeal flour for the crumble top and add raisins to the apples