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Flour

 
 
 
All-purpose Flour
A blend of hard or soft wheat flours, which is lower in protein then bread flour but higher than cake flour. It can be used with good results for all type of home-caked products.
Instant Flour
Millers have developed an all-purpose flour which some associated with the term "instantized" or "instant blending" to indicate flour dissolves readily in liquids without forming lumps. It is a no-sift flour.
Bran
A by-product of whole-wheat flour. It contains some of the outer hush and some of the endosperm.
Bread Flour
Milled from inner part of the hard spring or winter wheat.
Buckwheat Flour
Milled from the finely ground buckwheat kernel.
Cake Flour
Milled from soft wheat; the most highly refined flour milled; granulation uniform; protein content very low' flour is very delicate in quantity.
Corn Meal
Milled from corn.
Entire Wheat, Graham or Whole-Wheat Flour
Milled from cleaned whole-wheat grain.
Pastry Flour
usually made of soft wheat; low in protein and finely milled, though not as fine as cake flour.
Rice Flour
Milled from rice.
Rye Flour
Milled from rye grain. More like wheat flour in bread making qualities than any other grain.
Self-Rising Flour
Milled from soft or winter wheat and has salt and leavening added.
Soybean Flour
Milled from the soybean.