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31 August 2025 Flour Findings

Can you use all-purpose flour to create crusty pie shells, fluffy rolls and breads, chewy pizza, or delicate sugar cookies? I have found all-purpose flour, colloquially named AP flour by many a veteran baker or chef, including our late, beloved  Julia Child  who convinced even me that you just need to get started with baking (or cooking) using ingredients you do have available today.  In fact, I have found a secret among rural bakers, AP flour can be easily transformed to copy a specialty flour product by taking an extra step or adding another dry ingredient to yield similar or better baked goods without making the extra grocery trip or special order.  Here's short list of suggestions that make baking a beautiful experiment to explore! Bread Flour - add approximately 1.25 tsp vital wheat gluten per cup of AP flour; sifting recommended to combine uniformly Cake Flour - measure each cup level, then remove and replace 2 T of AP flour with 2 T corn starch. Sift dry mixtu...
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    Welcome to the Official Daily Dough Blog! 30 August 2025 Basic Bread Dough Ingredients List #1 - makes about two dozen medium-sized rolls and with the egg wash there will be a golden crust. For loaves, allow dough to rise an additional half hour to hour and a half, depending on your altitude and climate.  1.5 to 2.25 tsp fact-acting yeast     2 tsp sugar or .75 T of honey      1/3 cup sugar or 1/4 cup honey  1 tsp salt   4.5 to 5 cups bread flour   .25 cup warm water 1 cup milk .75 cup butter  1 egg beaten Dissolve yeast in warm water with smallest amount of sugar or dissolve in warm milk with sugar. Honey will reduce amount of wet ingredients required. Slowly add flour one cup at a time, after first cup of the addition include salt, sugar butter, egg. Continue adding flour by the cup or half cup until a shaggy dough is formed. Allow to double at least 2 hours or more depending on your altitude an...
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