2023 Edition - What are you baking?

[taxlady]

I made a Danish berry tart / pie. I used haskap berries. It's a really simple recipe, but very good. Today, there were some technical issues while making it and it was not photogenic, but it was delicious. I served it with sweetened crème fraiche.

 

[dragnlaw]

Made a white wheat loaf this morning. Bread machine 2lb loaf but baked in the oven. Came out pretty good. Picture later.

 

[taxlady]

Made a white wheat loaf this morning. Bread machine 2lb loaf but baked in the oven. Came out pretty good. Picture later.

When you write "white wheat", is that a white bread loaf or a loaf made with white whole wheat?

 

[dragnlaw]

Crumb was great, crust was great, personally taste still a bit too whole wheat but certainly acceptable. Bit of an old agers overhang! Perhaps I'll eventually find my other loaf pans in storage and make two slightly smaller loaves. White Wheat with partial Whole Wheat.

 

[taxlady]

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Crumb was great, crust was great, personally taste still a bit too whole wheat but certainly acceptable. Bit of an old agers overhang! Perhaps I'll eventually find my other loaf pans in storage and make two slightly smaller loaves. White Wheat with partial Whole Wheat.

Once again, I have to ask. When you write "white wheat", do you mean white flour made from wheat or do you mean white whole wheat flour?

 

[pepperhead212]

It looks like it has mostly white flour, with some WW flour added. When I used white wheat berries (I bought 35 lb buckets of that and rye berries, at the beginning of the pandemic) to grind my own WW flour, the bread was still considerably darker than that, when 100% white WW.

 

[taxlady]

It looks like it has mostly white flour, with some WW flour added. When I used white wheat berries (I bought 35 lb buckets of that and rye berries, at the beginning of the pandemic) to grind my own WW flour, the bread was still considerably darker than that, when 100% white WW.

It looks like mostly white flour to you? Maybe it's because we're looking at it on monitors. That looks like the colour of bread that I get when I use 100% stone ground whole wheat flour. I have never used (or even seen) white whole wheat flour.

 

[dragnlaw]

I just used the last of my 20 k bag of White wheat flour. That is all it says. Bought it in Cornwall - have to find a supplier here.
(edit: this bread is made with..) 3.5 cups white wheat flour and 1.5 cups whole wheat flour.
To the best of my knowledge, just means it is not bleached and still has all it's goodies in it.

 

[bethzaring]

Once again, I have to ask. When you write "white wheat", do you mean white flour made from wheat or do you mean white whole wheat flour?

It is whole wheat made from a variety of whole wheat berries that are white. It is a hard red winter wheat. I use about 1/3 whole wheat white flour and 2/3rds whole wheat flour in my breads. It's 100% whole wheat flour, and is not bleached. Just a different variety of wheat berry, like a soft whole wheat flour is made from yet a different wheat berry.

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[Cooking Goddess]

I've baked with white whole wheat flour for years. About ¼ of the flour in today's Irish Soda Bread is white whole wheat.

 

[dragnlaw]

LOL, so taxy, you will sleep wiser tonight, no?
Say Thank You to beth and CG.

 

[taxlady]

LOL, so taxy, you will sleep wiser tonight, no?
Say Thank You to beth and CG.

As to what kind of flour you used, no. I still don't know if you bought wheat flour that is white or if it was white whole wheat flour. I have come across too many things that try to imply that they are whole wheat by writing "wheat". But, most of the white flour in the supermarket is refined wheat flour. It doesn't have the bran or the germ. But, it was made from wheat. Okay, rice flour is usually white, but the white one isn't whole grain either.

@bethzaring I have read about white whole wheat. But, I have no way of knowing which kind dragn used. I don't think you do either.

 

[dragnlaw]

White Whole Wheat - how many kinds have you found? I've only ever found the one, which I purchased at a bulk food health store in Cornwall. That is all that was written on the bag. I don't know how else to describe it to you. Not trying to hide anything here.

 

[Aunt Bea]

The amount of fiber listed on the nutrition panel is a good indication.

1/4 cup of whole wheat flour should have around 3 grams of fiber and 1/4 cup of regular white all purpose flour should have less than 1 gram of fiber.

 

[dragnlaw]

Well, as said, bag is gone. As flour was consumed I would reduce the size of the container. Actually I'm remembering the size of the first container was a floor flip top, so it must have been 40 k. was darn heavy, but for some reason easier to manhandle than the 40 k of chicken or horse feed.

 

[taxlady]

Well, as said, bag is gone. As flour was consumed I would reduce the size of the container. Actually I'm remembering the size of the first container was a floor flip top, so it must have been 40 k. was darn heavy, but for some reason easier to manhandle than the 40 k of chicken or horse feed.

I don't think you are trying to hide anything, but you weren't being clear. If it said "white whole wheat", then it's whole wheat. OTOH if, as you wrote,

I just used the last of my 20 k bag of White wheat flour. That is all it says.

Then, we don't know that it's "whole wheat".

White wheat flour is not the same thing as white whole wheat flour.

But, it is confusing because, we don't usually mention the fact that refined white flour is made from wheat.

 

[dragnlaw]

Here yuh go, take from it what you will -

Whole Grains Council

 

[taxlady]

Here yuh go, take from it what you will -

Whole Grains Council

Did you notice that the article kept referring to "whole white wheat"?

 

[dragnlaw]

Never read the article, am satisfied with how I see my answers.
Thought it would help satisfy your understanding of it.

 

[pepperhead212]

Interesting article, @dragnlaw . I read a similar article, comparing the red and while hard wheat flours. Usually the white would be quite a bit more expensive, but in April 2020, when I bought that bucket of white hard wheat, it was only 50¢ more for the entire bucket, which is why I got it. Plus, it was slightly higher in protein. Not sure what wheat the WW I get at lidl is, but it is even higher protein (13%), and I could tell when I first started making bread with it, due to the higher gluten.