[Sca-cooks] Question about flour...
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius1 at verizon.net
Thu Jan 4 20:06:47 PST 2007
On Jan 4, 2007, at 11:01 PM, Elaine Koogler wrote:
> Friends,
> I am going to be baking a Middle Eastern cookie called "Virgins
> Breasts".
> However, the recipe calls for semolina flour. How different is
> from the
> unbleached plain flour I already have? Is there a great diference
> between
> the regular unbleached flour I already have and the semolina?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kiri
Semolina flour is traditionally coarser in grind and higher in gluten
than regular bread or AP (or what the British call "plain") flour...
Adamantius
"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils mangent de la
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them
eat cake!"
-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
"Confessions", 1782
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