What type of flour should I use to make normal fresh egg pasta?
If making Italian fresh pasta with egg (as explained here), you can use general-purpose or plain flour . This general flour is good for all sorts of cooking, and is usually made by milling (grinding if you like), various types of hard and soft wheat. Flour Lesson 1: bleach All-purpose or plain flour comes in both bleached and unbleached versions. The difference obviously is the color, in that the bleached flour is a brighter white. Q: What type of flour should I use to make fresh pasta without egg? A: This vegan-friendly fresh pasta doesnt use the same general-purpose or plain flour. Instead it uses durum wheat semolina flour. You may see this in the shop with its Italian name: ‘semola di grano duro. This flour is very coarse, which of course it needs to be if youre just mixing it with water rather than egg to make your pasta (egg produces a thicker binding mixture than water alone). Q: What the heck type of flour is double zero / type 00 / doppio zero? A: In Italy, flour is either typ
