Cooking Tips: What bread flour is

Bread flour is a hard wheat flour with about 12 percent protein. Bread flour is used for yeast-raised bread because the dough it produces has more gluten than dough made with other flours. Sufficient gluten produces a light loaf with good volume. Slices hold together, rather than crumble.

Submitted by: ChefMom

University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension

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