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Bulk buying bread flour?

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  • Pitlanepiglet
    Pitlanepiglet Posts: 2,129 Forumite
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    Time to revisit this one. We've been using a stash of wholemeal flour I bought months ago at a decent price but I cannot seem to find wholemeal flour between £1.29/1.5kg.

    The Wrights flour seems to work out at £1/1.5kg mail order but there is a minimum purchase to get free P&P.

    Has anyone got any suggestions for better priced wholemeal bread flour?
    Piglet

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  • Caterina wrote: »
    Have you checked Doves Farm? They have 16kg bags, have a look at their website

    Caterina

    Big thanks for this ... these people are by far the cheapest I've found yet. Most places average £1 per kilo and Tesco have suddenly doubled their white bread flour price so this is great.

    Kate
    :T
  • I think the reason Lidl strong bread flour makes such an excellent loaf is the fact that it contains flour improver (ascorbic acid / vitamin C). ASDA's flour also contains this and is good, too. Tesco's doesn't and produced awful results for me.
  • artichoke
    artichoke Posts: 1,724 Forumite
    hi

    how long does wholemeal flour keep for usually?

    art
  • Nerdlinger
    Nerdlinger Posts: 22 Forumite
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    edited 24 November 2011 at 3:56PM
    I have been making sourdough bread for about a year. I have tried a few supermarket flours but found the results a bit like cardboard. My best results so and by far have been from Natco Chakki Atta which is a strong sifted wholemeal chapatti flour. Pillsbury Chakki Atta hasn't been as successful, I don't think it is as strong, packet says 12g protein per 100g, bread has a scone-like texture. I got the Pillsbury from an Asian supermarket in Preston where I found that very few chapatti flour brands advertised the protein content and they had no Natco. I stumbled across the Natco flour first when I was buying chapatti equipment from spicesofindia.co.uk. Can any chapatti flour experts tell me which brand they think is strongest or best for breadmaking?
  • khampson
    khampson Posts: 357 Forumite
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    I am new to bread making after buying myself a bread maker, I have been buying the hovis bread mix for about 70p plus electric a loaf, but I want to be a little more adventurous and bake from scratch, I have found recipes for basic white loaf but it all seems immeasurably, like use 1 cup of flour and 1 tbs yeast ect, but I have been to the major supermarkets and yeast is sold in little 7g sachets and its all too complicated for me.

    So what I want is a place to buy the ingredients cheaply in bulk so I can get the price of making a loaf down as I originally bought a bread maker to try and cut my shopping bill.

    Also I want a simple recipe where I can weigh the ingredients so i can get the same consistency every time which I am not happy with using a tablespoon of this and a cup of that, so if anyone can point me in the right direction I would be most greatful.

    Keith
  • Alisha2008
    Alisha2008 Posts: 1,155 Forumite
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    My OH did a breadmaking course last summer, and there were no measurements at all.. the teacher said "add water", and it didn't matter how much they added, so it's not like that... I think he puts a sachet of yeast for a half-kg loaf, if that helps. The consistency does not depend on the amount of flour/water, but on other things too.

    Personally I don't think making the bread at home is cheaper than buying it, but obviously it's completely different... and the bread you make on the breadmachine is completely different too to the one you make by hand.
  • khampson
    khampson Posts: 357 Forumite
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    Also what make of ingredients do I need like type/make of yeast, flour, oils ect
  • khampson
    khampson Posts: 357 Forumite
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    I don't think is loads cheaper but at 70p + electric (no sure how much electricity is used) but i assume its al little cheaper as I am currently paying £1.00 to £1.30 for a loaf of hovis

    Keith
  • valk_scot
    valk_scot Posts: 5,290 Forumite
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    Did you get a cup and set of measuring spoons with your breadmaker? If so, all you have to do is measure out a set of ingredients once, weigh them on your scales as you go and write the weights/volumes down so you can use them in future. That's what I did anyway.

    I use supermarket bread flour, granulated sugar, table salt, tap water, sunflower cooking oil and the tubs of Allinsons Easy Bake yeast for my while loaf. The proportions for my bread maker are 450g flour, 300mls water, 1 tablespoon measure of oil, one teaspoon measure each of sugar and salt, two teaspoon measures of yeast. HOWEVER your machine may require slightly different proportions for best results than my bread maker. (A Tesco cheapie one.) That's about as simple as it gets when it comes to recipes. It works out as 40-50p a loaf, depending on how much the flour is. Current best buys are Lidl and Tesco own brands, at around 78p for 1.5Kg.
    Val.
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