cake flour
noun
finely ground wheat flour.
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For the best results when baking a cake, you need to use cake flour, a finely milled and typically bleached variety of flour made from soft winter wheat.
With a lower content of gluten-producing proteins than in all-purpose flour—around 7 percent versus 10 to 12 percent—cake flour yields baked goods with a fine, soft texture.
That'll save the batter-cake flour for the pie-crust and some of the lard and butter too.
Phyllis | Maria Thompson Daviess
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