You could use out-of-date flour, but - depending on the flour, the storage and how old it is - it may have become stale, rancid, developed off-flavors or picked up off odors. Your own nose will help you determine this. You can make a small test batch, too. Any storage pest development will be obvious.
If the flour was exposed to moisture it can cause the flour to clump together as well as encourace the growth of bacteria and mold; if it is jut old it may be stale due to oxidation. So the asnwer is yes it can, but it may not.
-I used old flour, maybe one year old, for Pizza dough and it did not rise very well using fresh yeast. I would not take the chance.
you have to throw the flour away after a year.
Bread flour, sometimes called "Strong flour" has a higher gluten content than regular cake flour. Out of all bread flours, "Canadian" bread flour usually has the highest gluten content. I think that pasta flour (sometimes called "00 flour") may have a slightly higher gluten content than some bread flours, but using pasta flour doesn't result in a better quality of bread.
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Fruit Bread , Wheat Bread Are Made From Rice Flour ======================================== Rice flour is generally used in place of wheat flour to make a gluten-free bread. To give it a texture similar to a wheat bread, xanthan gum is generally added. Some flat breads like rotli apparently do not need the gum. There are some idli recipes using flour.
There is no difference between "flour for making bread" and "flour to make bread." Both phrases refer to the same thing: bread flour.
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I need two cups of bread flour. I have ap flour and cream of tartar though. How do I make bread flour from what I have?
Superfine flour should not be used in place of bread flour. Bread flour is made from "hard" wheat that has been bred to have the high gluten content that makes proper bread.
There is no bread without flour.
It is not the bread that is refined but the flour that the bread is made with - thus a sourdough bread can be made with unrefined flour or refined flour.
Plain flour has a lower gluten content than high grade or bread flour so is less suitable for bread. Some bread flours may also have additives to improve the bread texture or to quicken the bread making process.
She uses 1.15 kg of corn flour.