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When I first came to Luxor it was necessary to find someone with a sack of wholemeal flour and put it through several sievings to remove both the bran and the weevils.
Then we were able to get small quantities of plain white flour - Al Hamdulillah, but it is a bit strong for some baking.
Yesterday in 40 Market I saw some packs of a more refined flour, does this mean that we are about to have a range of flours Inshallah?
I bought the bread flour (labelled fine flour) but with a picture of different sorts of bread on the packaging & it made the most superb foccacia so I guess (hope) the other flour they also had is more of a general baking flour. I used it for scones & they rose & turned out well so will try it for cake next.
So, as our local baker's standards have dropped due to the summer, and he doesn't know about 'real bread.
I, me have decided to bake my own. I have shied-away from anything to do with pastry after I...
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Who try Ragabs, they have different kinds of flour and I'm sure they have bread flour in there.
Egyptian bakers and bakery owners protest government decision to significantly raise price of flour used to produce subsidised bread.
Hundreds of Egyptian bakery owners on Saturday blocked Cairo's...
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The bakers revolt seems simple but it isn't and like most protests is based on self interest, in this case a lifestyle based (for many) on decades of rorting the Government.
