Take a peek in your pantry: How many kinds of flour do you have? There's probably a bag of all-purpose flour in there for your favorite baked goods like cookies, cakes, and biscuits, but what about ...

When a recipe calls for flour, many home-based chefs reach for the generic all-purpose kind. This makes sense for kitchen efficiency, as it works just fine in many recipes. However, if you happen to ...

Have you ever made a loaf of homemade baked bread? There is just something wonderful about baking your own bread; it's so gratifying and your family will be so impressed. If you haven’t used a bread ...

If you're looking to make your own pizza dough from scratch, you'll want to make sure that you're using the right flour. Here ...

A note on flour. Although you can produce excellent croissants from all-purpose flour, bread flour, or frozen packaged white dough, the high gluten content makes for hard and rubbery rolling out. A ...

There are loads of simple white bread recipes out there, many of which yield multiple loaves worth of dough. Whether you’re a seasoned bread baker, or trying your hand at yeast breads for the first ...

Can’t find all-purpose flour? Out of whole-wheat? Here’s what you can use instead. By Erin Jeanne McDowell Baking is a science, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to make substitutions. With some ...

Gluten is a family of proteins found in wheat, rye, and barley (1). It improves the texture, flavor, and moistness of many baked goods, including bagels, breads, pastries, and noodles. The more gluten ...