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All-Purpose Flour

Triticum aestivum (milled)

Grains & Starches · Wheat · 801 recipes
Raw Ingredient

Essence

The blank canvas of baking. Flour and water become bread; flour and butter become pastry; flour and eggs become pasta. It is potential energy waiting to be shaped by human hands.

History & Origin

-10000 Earliest grinding of wild grains in the Fertile Crescent
-3000 Egyptians develop leavened bread using wild yeast
1834 Steel roller mills replace stone grinding, producing white flour at scale

Cooking Methods

Sift

Aerate flour for lighter baked goods

1 min

Roux

Cook equal parts flour and fat for sauce thickening

3-20 min

Knead

Develop gluten through folding and pressing dough

10-15 min

Dredge

Coat proteins in seasoned flour before frying

2 min

Where It's Used

Used across 18+ cuisines worldwide

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Recipes Using All-Purpose Flour

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