When cooking savory foods, you can often get away with substituting ingredients or loosely following a recipe (or foregoing one altogether). But when it comes to baking, experts know how important it ...

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 ...

Thought flour was just flour? Think again! Not all flour is created equal and understanding what makes each one unique can open up a world of baking possibilities and yield some pretty impressive ...

Cake flour, bread flour, pastry flour, and all-purpose flour (which are all made from wheat) vary primarily by the type of wheat they’re made from and their protein content, which is perhaps the most ...

When we’re little, we watch our parents work in the kitchen with awe. Flour, sugar, eggs, and a few other ingredients go into a bowl, and a little while later, a batch of cookies emerges from the oven ...

A mound of ground flour next to a wooden bowl and spoon with dried wheat - GheorgheGarcu/Shutterstock As opposed to just throwing different ingredients into a pan and ...