Bread
Bread. The stuff of life.
Here's some things you may not know about flour types (unless you read Wikipedia,
which is
where I stole it from):
- German flour type numbers indicate the milligrams of ash per 100g of flour
- French flour type numbers show the milligrams of ash per 10g of flour
Ash |
Protein |
Wheat flour type |
US |
German |
French |
Italian |
~0.4% |
~9% |
pastry flour |
405 |
40 |
00 |
~0.55% |
~11% |
all-purpose flour |
550 |
55 |
0 |
~0.8% |
~14% |
high gluten (strong) flour |
812 |
80 |
1 |
~1% |
~15% |
first clear flour |
1050 |
110 |
2 |
>1.5% |
~13% |
white whole wheat |
1600 |
150 |
Farina integrale di grano tenero |