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Wholemeal / Wholewheat Flour?

Is Wholewheat Flour the same thing as Wholemeal?? a couple of recipes have wholewheat - but i cant find it to buy???

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  • thriftlady_2
    thriftlady_2 Posts: 9,128 Forumite
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    Are they American recipes?
    I find that American recipes refer to wholewheat flour/bread instead of wholemeal.I've always used wholemeal when I see the word wholewheat.
  • krishna
    krishna Posts: 818 Forumite
    useful page on flour here http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2198586

    Interestingly, wholemeal may be made from reconstituted bleached flour + bran etc, unless it says stoneground.
  • Shez
    Shez Posts: 2,180 Forumite
    thanks Krishna have read the link on flour, that seems to have cleared it up!

    thriftylady: the recipes are from ones on the indexed collections on here, so maybe people do have american cookbooks.

    wholemeal it is then, thats okay.

    cheers
  • taplady
    taplady Posts: 7,184 Forumite
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    When I worked in a bakery we had 2 types of flour for bread, wholewheat which was a heavier loaf and wholemeal. As far as I know the best sort to go for is stoneground if you can get it.
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