Bread Flour Versus All Purpose Flour

Many people use  all purpose flour in bread making instead of bread flour.  I started wondering what the difference is.  It turns out that the difference is gluten.  Gluten is a type of protein found in flour.  The more gluten in the flour the heavier the bread.
Bread flour has more gluten than all purpose flour.   [...]

Flour

As you might guess, we make a lot of bread at our house. We get all of the flour for our bread at Costco.  Costco sells it in 50 pound bags.  (Flour procurement is a job for Mr. Diva as I’m not sure I could manage such a heavy, unwieldy item.) While we love our [...]