When a recipe calls for flour, many home-based chefs reach for the generic all-purpose kind. This makes sense for kitchen efficiency, as it works just fine in many recipes. However, if you happen to ...
When cooking savory foods, you can often get away with substituting ingredients or loosely following a recipe (or foregoing one altogether). But when it comes to baking, experts know how important it ...
To take the guesswork out of your holiday baking, we scoured the stores and picked up 10 bags of all-purpose flour that ...
Thought flour was just flour? Think again! Not all flour is created equal and understanding what makes each one unique can open up a world of baking possibilities and yield some pretty impressive ...
From cakes to cookies to bread, this widely available flour delivers the consistency on which bakeries and pastry chefs depend.
Pastry chef and culinary instructor, Cindy Mushet, knows everything there is to know about flours. If you're using all-purpose flour, make sure it's unbleached. Bleaching is unnecessary and, according ...
It’s been around since 1790 (yes, you read that right). When I first started baking, I was overwhelmed by the sheer variety of flours available. Walking down the baking aisle, I'd see rows upon rows ...