How to make Bread Flour
Homemade Bread Flour – When you’re out of bread flour you can make your own substitute with just 2 ingredients and following a no-fail formula!
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: What your recipe calls for
- Category: Baking
- Method: mixing
- Cuisine: baking
Ingredients
- Your bread recipe
- American All Purpose Flour – you must know the protein percentage amount of it (look at your bag of flour)
- Vital Wheat Gluten
Instructions
- Calculate the flour needed in your bread recipe to grams.
- Look at the bag of AP flour and see what the protein % is.
- Use THIS formula to calculate how much vital wheat gluten you need:
- (Average Bread Flour Protein – AP Flour protein) * 1% (recipe flour amount in grams) = Amount of Vital Wheat Gluten to add