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What is Polohrubá Mouka?
Polohrubá mouka (semi-coarse flour) – This semi-course wheat-based flour is often the flour choice for cakes, certain pastries (like kolache), and even many breads. It’s slightly coarser than US all-purpose flour, but the two can sometimes be used interchangeably, with minor differences in the texture results.
What is hruba flour?
Hrubá is coarse flour. It can also be used in the Czech cakes mentioned above. The most famous Czech meal it is used in is bread dumplings. However, you can buy the dumpling mix in or near the flour section.
What is all-purpose flour in Czech?
Hladka. This flour is the smoothest of all the Czech flours and is used when making anything delicate and fluffy, it is probably most often used in Czech cooking for Christmas cookies and gingerbread. Hladka flour is the most similar to all-purpose flour.
What is all-purpose flour in Slovakia?
All-purpose flour is known as biela múka, white flour in Slovak.
What is wondra used for?
Developed by Gold Medal Flour in the early 1960s, Wondra is most commonly used when making turkey or chicken gravy. It can also be used in baked goods as well as fish and poultry dishes. Use it to thicken gravies, soups, stews, and sauces. Its lightness makes it perfect as a dredging flour for fish and poultry.
What is smooth flour?
Smooth flour is finely ground flour, grains are about 0.1 mm, soft and white. Thanks to this structure, pastries that are made from it, get a smooth texture. Sharp flour is a somewhat coarser structure, because it is not so thoroughly grounded, that is, it is separated from soft flour.
What is H and R flour?
H&R All Purpose Flour is milled from cleaned, sound, hard red winter and/or hard red spring wheat. Use this flour to create all varieties of white pan breads, dinner rolls, pancakes, waffles, biscuits, scones, cookies, quick breads, pizza dough, breadsticks, tortillas, sauces, gravies, batters and breading.
What Spelt flour?
Spelt flour is a flour made from a species of wheat with a nutty, slightly tangy flavor. Since it’s a form of wheat, it does contain gluten. It can be used for making cookies, breads, muffins and other applications where you’d use wheat flour.
What is semi coarse wheat flour?
Pšeničná múka polohrubá (Semi-coarse Wheat Flour) is made of soft summer wheat, it is white in colour and milled to a slightly coarser consistency than Fine Wheat Flour. It has an overall protein content of around 9.3%. We often use it in fruit and chocolate cakes.
What is the difference between flour and Wondra?
Wondra flour is wheat flour that has been pre-cooked and dried. If you think of instant oatmeal (oatmeal that’s par-boiled and dried for faster cooking), Wondra is the flour equivalent. Like pastry flour, Wondra is lower in protein than all-purpose flour and comes very finely ground.
How much Wondra do I use?
Scoop up some Wondra flour in a slotted spoon, if you bought it in the box and not the shaker. Sprinkle just a small amount, about the equivalent of a 1/4 tsp. per cup of sauce, at a time into the sauce.
What is H flour?
Hard flour, also known as bread flour, has a high gluten content, which makes it tougher. Products made with hard flour will hold their shape well once they are baked.
Is H&R all-purpose flour bleached?
Gold Medal™ H&R™ Flour All Purpose Bleached/ Enriched/ Malted 50 lb 4.9 out of 5 stars. Read reviews for average rating value is 4.9 of 5.
What is Gehun Ka Aata?
What is whole wheat flour, gehun ka atta, gehun ka aata? The word “whole” refers to the fact that all of the grain (bran, germ and endosperm) is used and nothing is lost in the process of making the flour. This is in contrast to white, refined flours, which contain only the endosperm.