Patent Flour What is Patent Flour? Bakers often use the term patent flour to refer to baking flour. However, most flour sold today, whether bread, cake or pastry, is patent flour. It is high quality, commercial grade white flour. It's the milled product of the innermost part of the endosperm of the [...]
Clear Flour What is Clear Flour? Clear flour is what’s leftover when the high quality white patent flour is extracted from wheat. Despite its name, clear flour is darker in color, as well as coarser and stronger tasting than patent flour. Because of its grayish color, it finds use in whole grain [...]
Cookie Flour What is Cookie Flour? Cookie flour is a soft, finely-milled low gluten wheat flour. It is used mainly in making cookies, pie crust and other tender-texture baked goods. The protein content of this flour is typically between 8 and 10% It’s slightly lower than that of all purpose flour (11%) And higher [...]
Puff Pastry What is a Puff Pastry? Puff pastry, also known as Pâte Feuilletée or feuilletage in French, is a very delicate and rich pastry that consists of many thin alternating layers of dough and fat. This lamination is what gives puff pastry its light, crispy and flaky texture upon baking. Puff [...]
Choux Pastry Also known as pȃte à choux What is Choux Pastry? Choux pastry, also known as pȃte à choux, is a twice-cooked hollow French pastry. It’s made from choux paste and is typically eaten cold. A sweet version is normally filled with cream and garnished while a savory version can be [...]
Pastry Flour What is Pastry Flour? Pastry flour is a powder produced from milling soft white or soft red wheats. This type of flour usually has low absorption and little mixing tolerance. Its properties are intermediate between bread and cake flours. It is used to make:1 Laminated products (e.g. croissants, Danish and [...]
