Bread

[swagman]

Hi guys

Dose any one know can you make bread with wholemeal plain flour?.

Thanks in advance.

 

[spamel]

Do you want to make actual bread with yeast that will rise, or a damper or bannock?

 

[xylaria]

The easy answer is the same way you make bread with white flour.

Which is
1 lb of flour
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of sugar (molasses sugar is nicest with brown bread)
1 tablespoon of warm water
yeast

How you make it is dependenat on type of yeast you use. Fresh yeast is crumbled into about 1pint of warm water and the sugar is added. Instant yeast is mixed in with the flour, sugar, salt and oil and then the water is added.

The dough is then kept somewhere warm for hour, I have in past raised bread by putting it up my jumper. I wasn't camping I just lived in a really cold student house.

 

[Toadflax]

I had always thought that wholemeal flour was OK for bread, until I saw just now that Waitrose mention both strong wholemeal and plain wholemeal. Generally, you need a flour with a high gluten content (strong flour) to make what most people regard as normal bread, in order to get the springy, rubbery dough. If you use plain flour, it will tend to be more like a pastry than a bread.

Then again, that is in the UK, and I don't know if flour is described differently over where you are. E.g. I still have no idea what the USA's general purpose flour is.


Geoff

 

[nicodiemus]

General Purpose Flour is a bit of a halfway house between our strong flour and plain flour, iirc. Though you can get proper bread flour, GP flour should work fine for most things.