Cake materials mainly include flour, sweetener (usually sucrose), binder (usually eggs, which vegetarians can replace with gluten and starch), shortening (usually butter or margarine, and cakes with low fat content will be replaced with concentrated juice), liquid (milk, water or juice), essence and starter (such as yeast or baking powder).

2. Cookies

Cookies are baked with flour, water or milk without yeast. They can be used as storage food for travel, navigation and mountaineering, and are also very convenient and applicable for soldiers in wartime.

3. Cake

Cake is made of flour, oil, eggs, sugar and dairy products as the main raw materials, supplemented by various additives, etc. It is an important part of western food and plays an important role in western food culture.

4, pastry

Crispy pastry is a kind of delicious food, the main materials are flour, crispy noodles and so on, and the auxiliary materials are stuffing and so on. The main cooking technology is baking or frying, and different fillings can be put in according to your own taste.

The dough kneaded with low-gluten flour will be very crisp, because there is less network structure, so it is often used to make cookies and cakes. Low-gluten flour is also called cake flour.

The sponge cake is made of low-gluten flour. Because the low-gluten flour has no strength, the cake made of it is particularly soft, bulky and flat. Low-gluten flour is similar to cake flour and pastry flour in daily life, but in addition to low-gluten flour, cake flour also contains wheat starch and emulsifier. Low-gluten flour refers to flour with water content 13.8% and coarse protein below 9.5%, which has the functions of nourishing heart, tonifying kidney, removing heat and quenching thirst.

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The difference between high-gluten flour, low-gluten flour, bread flour and cake flour used in baking is all because of the soul of flour-gluten.

When the gluten content is high, it is called high gluten powder. This kind of flour will form a lot of wheat protein network structure during kneading, which makes the dough very tough. This is how the high-tech "glove film" comes into being when making bread. The existence of the glove film makes the bread have a layered taste, and the dim sum that gives full play to this characteristic, such as the golden brick. This is why high-gluten flour is also called breadflower. Lamian Noodles and soda cakes that need tensile strength and toughness are also suitable for high-gluten flour.

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People's Network-It's time to learn about the soul of flour.