Wheat flour can't be used to make cakes, and cakes should be made of low-gluten flour to be fluffy and tender. But wheat flour can be used to make steamed bread, flower rolls, bean buns, noodles, fried dough sticks, pancakes and sesame cakes. Because wheat flour is easy to ferment. It is often mixed with other things to make fermented food. Generally, there are wheat flour in cakes and cakes, and most of buckwheat noodles, sweet potato noodles, Yuanxiao and so on are also mixed with wheat flour. Wheat flour is also the raw material of most snacks, and the main raw material of biscuits, perilla and peach cakes is also wheat flour.

Wheat flour can also be processed into gluten, and the washed part is wheat starch, which is used as thickener and in food and industry.

Selection method of wheat flour

1, look

See if the outer package indicates the name, address, production date, shelf life and quality grade of the factory; See if there is any trace of unpacking and reuse of the sealing line, and if there is, it is a counterfeit product.

2. Smell

Judging from the smell, normal wheat flour has wheat flavor. If there is peculiar smell or "musty smell", it may be stored improperly, expired or deteriorated due to external environmental pollution.

3. Choose

According to different uses, the corresponding varieties of wheat flour should be selected. If making noodles, steamed bread, jiaozi, etc., we should choose rich and strong flour and special flour with high gluten content; Wheat flour with low gluten content is selected for making cakes and biscuits.