What does flour do to food?

Answer 1

Flour is the main ingredient in most baking. It provides the substance of the baked product and different flours give different textures. It consists maily of starch/carbohydrate, and fibre. Flourless recipes give a velvety melt-in-the mouth feel as there is no solid substance to the baked item: the sugars and fats dissolve freely and disperse in the warm moist mouth. They are not filling.

Answer 2

it depends on what your cooking because for soup you can use it to thicken the broth for the soup you just get a pot and 1tp of butter and cut up part of anonion then add hot water with the stuff in the soup pot.

Answer 3

it hardens it.For example if i want to make a cake and i want it to be rich iwill use 1 pound of everything that i will use except the flour cos the flour will just harden the cake

Wrong.

There are many cakes, such as a pound cake for example, where all ingredients are equal. (hence the name.)

Flour can be used as a thickener, binding agent, leavener....it all depends on the usage.

Flour is generally the foundation in baking as far as breads and the branches from there on out.

-AYAP

Answer 4

Flour provides the recipe with a structure or grainwork to work with.