[Sca-cooks] Question about flour...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

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




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