Flour for Panasonic Breadmaker

[Dubna]

With fewer and fewer visits to the UK I am getting to the stage of not being able to carry sufficient flour to keep me and my French friends in UK style bread.

So far I have found no reliable product in shops outside Paris and I am in Morbihan (56).

I am particularly looking for the following:

wholemeal strong flour

white strong flour

granary strong flour

Any ideas where I can get these products other than by expensive mail order from the UK.

I am sure this will have been asked before but the Search facility appears not to be working correctly as I cannot display anything beyond the first page of the search.

CHRIS

[Franglais24]

Hi,

I've had this problem also! Fortunately it was also recently raised (no pun intended) in a recent edition of French News, and is available online. If you go to www.French-news.com and search for "bread", it brings up several articles. Look out for the one headed Flour Power, which discusses different types of flour; however it contains a mistake, so look at it in conjunction with the one headed Yeasty Remarks.

It won't answer all your questions but it's a start!

If you do find some more information elsewhere please share it with us.

Regards,

F24.

[Patf]

Flour made from french wheat is low in gluten compared to english and canadian wheat. If you add gluten to french flour - 1tbsp to a pound of flour - this produces a more english-type bread.Another clue is that the higher the T number the stronger the flour. Champion sell a white flour T 85  which I use plus gluten for white bread. I get a farine complete from the nearest mill for brown bread - not as good as Hovis or Allinsons but better than the french supermarket ones. I also use quite a lot of oil. There is a firm called Celnat which sells gluten which I order  from a local healthfood shop. I've never seen granary flour here. Pat. ps You can buy english flours and have them delivered from a shop in the Dordogne but it's a bit expensive. 

[Dubna]

Thanks for the replies, most helpful.

CHRIS

[Battypuss]

www.epicerieanglaise.com can solve all your problems; I get my flour there! Very helpful, reliable and no, I don't work for them!