What foods are made from flour?

Flour is the most important staple food in our lives. This staple food tastes very good, and many people in northern my country like to eat flour. There are also various ingredients that can be made from flour. For example, dumplings, noodles, buns, steamed buns, etc. are all made without flour. Moreover, the maltose contained in flour is good for our body. So what are the foods made from flour?

Different flours are used in different foods:

High-gluten flour: It is darker in color, more active and smooth, and does not easily clump together when held by hand; it is more suitable for making bread and some puff pastry, such as Danish pastry. In western cakes, it is mostly used in muffins (Thousand-Layer Puff) and cream hollow biscuits (Puffs). In cakes, it is limited to use in high-ingredient fruit cakes.

Medium-gluten flour: milky white in color, between high-gluten and low-gluten flour, with a semi-loose texture; it is generally used in Chinese dim sum, such as buns, steamed buns, noodles, etc. (Note: Generally, all flours sold in the market without special instructions can be regarded as all-purpose flour. And this type of flour packaging will usually indicate that it is suitable for making buns, dumplings, steamed buns, and noodles)

Low-gluten flour: It is white in color and easy to form a ball when grabbed by hand; the protein content of low-gluten flour is around 8.5% on average. It has low protein content and less gluten, so its gluten is also weak. It is more suitable for making cakes, sponge cakes, biscuits, tart crusts and other Western pastries that require a fluffy and crispy texture.

Ingredients: flour, sugar, preserved fruit, lard, alkaline noodles, Shaoxing wine

Preparation method:

Take an appropriate amount of flour, steam it in a steamer for 15 minutes, take it out, sieve it and set it aside, mix the pork fat cubes with Shaoxing wine and sugar osmanthus juice, add it to the steamed flour and mix it with white sugar to make cooked noodles.

Take an appropriate amount of flour, add water and mix well. After natural fermentation, add alkaline water and sugar and knead well.

Spread a little flour on the chopping board, put the sugared dough on it and knead it, roll it into a dough sheet, take half of the cooked flour and sprinkle it on two-thirds of the dough sheet, fold the one-third of the dough sheet back and cover it, then fold it in half into three layers, press the two ends of the dough sheet tightly, repeat this three or four times, and brush with sesame oil for the remaining times.

Brush the folded cake with cold water, garnish with some green plums, candied dates, raisins, melon seeds and other preserved fruits, and steam until cooked.