can you make bread with cake flour?

[Herbsman.]

Is it about the fact that wine is greater than bread?

 

[Orang Utan]

no, it's about making the best from limited resources

 

[Badger Kitten]

result of experiment?

 

[Orang Utan]

will tell you tomorrow - will try one with expired flour, one with non-expired flour

 

[Badger Kitten]

as long as it is weevil-free you should be all right.

 

[Orang Utan]

the packet is sealed but i shall check for insect life first.

 

[Callie]

as long as it is weevil-free you should be all right.

pah extra protein that is, weevil bread mmmm

 

[Herbsman.]

as long as it is weevil-free you should be all right.

ugh that reminds me of my gf's rice i was gonna cook... absolutely crawling. UGH! *shivers*

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

well, can you? self-raising or plain or neither?

Why not make a cake instead?

 

[Orang Utan]

Why not make a cake instead?

as i said earlier, no eggs

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

well, can you? self-raising or plain or neither?

I have made bread with plain strong, self raising and plain old plain cake flour.
It never seemed to make the slightest bit of difference.

 

[8115]

Nom nom yes.

 

[Herbsman.]

Plain old cake flour isn't 'hard' enough to stand up to a long, slow rise and multiple foldings required to make a decent loaf.

For your bog standard uniform texture loaf of course there's not going to be much difference.

If you can get that sort of crumb with cake flour, I salute you.

 

[Herbsman.]

come on lets see cake flour hold air like this:

go on try it, lets see it collapse after 30 minutes.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

as i said earlier, no eggs

A dozen eggs costs two dollars.

 

[Orang Utan]

read the thread dude

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

read the thread dude

I read the first couple, and the last few. Your egg status didn't come up in those posts.

 

[Orang Utan]

i have no eggs and no dollars

 

[mauvais]

If you tell me where you work I'll post you some flour. Next week: marzipan.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

i have no eggs and no dollars

Ah.

Do you have yeast?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

[to the other posters on this thread]: "Pssst: I think we should have a whip-round and send OU over a dozen eggs."

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

that or some mothers pride

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Just a thought: in that recent photo on the ugly mug thread, you're hoisting a beer.

Wouldn't the price of a pint buy you two dozen eggs?

 

[Orang Utan]

i made the bread - it was a complete failure

 

[Orang Utan]

Just a thought: in that recent photo on the ugly mug thread, you're hoisting a beer.

Wouldn't the price of a pint buy you two dozen eggs?

i don't think i was as i don't tend to drink when out clubbing, but that's immaterial anyhow cos that was taken a couple of weeks ago.

 

[cesare]

i made the bread - it was a complete failure

That's a shame. What was it like, failure wise?

 

[Orang Utan]

it was just like cooked dough - it didn't rise at all (maybe cos the yeast was out of date too)

 

[cesare]

it was just like cooked dough - it didn't rise at all (maybe cos the yeast was out of date too)

I guess so. Don't let it put you off trying again with decent ingredients though.

 

[Orang Utan]

i'll just make normal bread from now on - not so keen on the flat breads anyway - they seem to miss the entire point of what makes bread yummy

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

i don't think i was as i don't tend to drink when out clubbing, but that's immaterial anyhow cos that was taken a couple of weeks ago.

That's how it is with money: easy come, easy go.