All-purpose soft plain flour for pastry, biscuits, sauces and non-yeasted baking.

Plain Flour is also known as all purpose flour or maida. It is nothing but a refined wheat flour. Plain flour is a perfect blend of soft and hard wheat.

All-purpose flour, also known as refined flour or simply flour, is made from wheat grains after removing the brown covering. It is then milled, refined and bleached.

Yes, you can absolutely make a 1:1 substitute. For 1 cup bread flour, use 1 cup all-purpose, and vice-versa (note breads and pizza crusts made with all-purpose flour may have a little less chew than those made with bread flour, but results will still be good).

Bob’s Red Mill Unbleached Organic All-Purpose Flour. Heckers Unbleached All-Purpose Flour. King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour. Pillsbury’s Best All-Purpose Flour.

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• Whole-wheat flour makes for a more wheat-y and substantial bread.
• Durum wheat flour has the highest protein of all flour.
• Rye flour does not contain any gluten-forming proteins, so it is used in conjunction with a minimum of 80% white wheat flour (less, and the rye would cause the bread to be gummy).

Plain flour or self raising flour?

In the domestic field, you have 3 main choices when it comes to flours: All-purpose, bread, and pastry.

Any southern baker will tell you that to make the best biscuits, you need special flour–specifically White Lily All-Purpose Flour milled from extra-fine, soft, red-winter wheat. Because, it’s low in both protein and gluten, this flour makes baked goods rise higher and come out lighter.

To begin with, biscuits are made from flour. Also, sifting the flour and other dry ingredients will give you a smoother, airier dough. You don’t even need a flour sifter to do this. A wire mesh strainer will work just fine.

1. THE FAT ISN’T COLD ENOUGH, AND THE OVEN ISN’T HOT ENOUGH. Make sure you chill the butter for 30 minutes (it will cool faster when cut into pieces). Then heat the oven to 500 degrees; the high heat produces maximum steam, which encourages the biscuits to rise as high as they possibly can.

If your biscuits are too tough… Biscuit dough is moist and sticky, so much so that it may seem too wet after you’ve added all your flour. If you do think this about your dough, fight the urge to add more dry ingredients — dough that isn’t wet enough will bake into a hard, dry biscuit. The result: Tough, dense biscuits.

Butter is the winner here. The butter biscuits were moister with that wonderful butter taste and melt-in-your mouth texture. I’d be curious to test out substituting half or just two tablespoons of the butter with shortening to see if you get the best of both.

The biscuit method is the process of blending butter (or a fat of some kind) into flour so that it provides a flaky texture. Usually, this is done by combining flour and cold butter that has been broken down into pieces around the size of a pea, and then folding in a liquid to combine it all together.

What are the two most important steps in biscuit making? The two keys to success in making the best biscuits are handling the dough as little as possible as well as using very cold solid fat (butter, shortening, or lard) and cold liquid.