Bulk Bag Descriptions - Lindley Mills (2024)

FAQs

How much protein is in Lindley Mills bread flour? ›

Bread. Our 100% Certified Organic Bread flour is perfect for bread, pizza, or mixing with ancient and heirloom grains. With a greater than 12.6% protein, this malted flour has the strength that you need for pan and hearth loaves with lots of volume.

1 pound of whole wheat flour makes 3 1/3 cups. My bread recipe uses 6-8 cups for two loaves of bread.. so I would get somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 loaves for 50lbs.

A 5-pound bag of all-purpose flour has 18 cups. For other types of flour, the total may be different.

Artisanal flour is inherently no different t regular flour since the ingredients are largely the same. The differences lie in the product's quality and the quality of the goods you can make from it. Artisanal flours often produce a better aroma and flavor and are better for making crusty bread with tender insides.

Whole wheat flour is high in protein because it contains the entire wheat berry, including the bran, endosperm, and germ. Bran is naturally high in protein. Typically, whole wheat flour protein percentages range from 13% to 15% or higher. (For reference, King Arthur Baking Whole Wheat Flour is 14% protein.)

What's the difference between bread flour and all-purpose flour? The primary difference between bread flour and all-purpose flour is the protein content. Bread flour has more protein (King Arthur's is 12.7%) than all-purpose (11.7%). For context, pastry and cake flours have less, about 8% to 10%, respectively.

basic sandwhich bread is comprised of 3 cups of flour per loaf. i use a two-loaf recipe that takes six cups. most of my artisan breads require four cups per loaf, plus always some extra for dusting. so between four and six loaves per bag, depending on the type of bread loaves you make.

In a nutshell, if you're buying basic, cheap sandwich bread, it's probably cheaper than you can make it at home. But if you compare two loaves similar to what you could make at home — one made with high-quality ingredients as opposed to one made with lesser quality ingredients — home baking becomes much cheaper.

1kg of flour will provide two large loaves, three smaller loaves or a baker's dozen of rolls or buns (you can always freeze the loaves you don't use immediately). Whatever amount of flour you use, take the weight of the flour as being 100%.

I liked the pretty Le Creuset and Guzzini containers as countertop picks for holding sugar and flour, while the taller, plastic tubs—like the Rubbermaid, OXO, and Chef's Path—were better for pantry storage (think foods like spaghetti or cereal).

Will a 5lb bag of flour fit in a gallon jar? ›

5lbs will fill to the top of a one gallon container with very little room for a scoop. Suggest getting a 1.5 gallon container for 5lbs of flour or a 2.5 gallon container for 10lbs.

Dry Ingredients:

White All-Purpose/Bread Flour (sifted) 4 cups = 1 pound.

Pastry flour is the middle ground between cake flour and all-purpose flour. Professional bakers love that it's finely milled with a protein content that hovers around eight to nine percent, striking the perfect balance between flakiness and tenderness while maintaining structure.

You can always substitute all-purpose flour for bread flour one for one in any recipe that calls for it. Your bread might not raise quite as high or have quite as much chew, if you are using all-purpose flour, but it will still be delicious and homemade and all the good things.

The healthiest bread flour is 100% whole grain flour. Whole grain flour could be rye, barley, spelt, oat, or wheat flour - the key is that the flour is made from 100% whole grains. Whole grain breads provide essential nutrients that are lacking in bread made from white flour.

However, if the nutritional information is displayed in something other than “per 100” grams, you need to do some math. If there is 4 grams of protein per 30 grams of flour, you need to multiply 4 by the number 100 and then divide by 30 (see example below). This flour has a protein content of 13.33%.

However, the Bob's site, while it has no spec sheet for any of their flours, claims in its Q&A section that this flour has "13-15% protein".

What is Whole Wheat Flour? Of all the types of wheat flour, whole wheat is the one that's milled using the entire wheat kernel (the germ, endosperm, and bran) and has 13–14 percent protein.