The only reason to use wholemeal flour is to increase the nutritional value of your food. Wholemeal flour tends to have a slight rise, which is an indication that it has more leavening power. The rise isn’t a big deal, but it’s noticeable. To make it more obvious, I use a kitchen scale to measure my wholemeal flour, because it’s easier to tell my flour is higher or lower when I’m measuring.
Wholemeal flour has the same rise as soymilk and regular whole wheat flour, so it does have the same leavening power. However, when you look at the ingredients on the label, many of them are made from whole grains, whole wheat, and/or rye, so the leavening power is much higher.
This is the best of the wholemeal flours. It has the most leavening power and is the least processed, which makes it perfect for your body as you prepare it for baking. But I have also tried the whole wheat flour, and it doesn’t rise as much. So I’m just going to save that one for another post.
Wholemeal flour, or wholemeal self raising flour, is the same flour as whole wheat. The difference is that all other whole wheat flours have no “flour” at all, so they can be used as a substitute. You can also use them to replace white whole wheat flour in baking.
So, it’s pretty much like all other self raising flours. All other flours have that whole wheat flour at the end which can’t be used in baking. So that’s why I haven’t tried the wholemeal flour.
I think this is the part that makes me cringe, or at least makes me feel a little weird about including them in our baking recipes. I think it’s because I’m kind of a lazy person. I like to bake something and then just do it tomorrow, or even better, the next day. I tend to get really picky about the time I spend baking. Not to mention, I’m really picky about the quality of the ingredients.
In general, a lot of recipe books will include a few dozen or so recipes that you can use in a given recipe. To be honest, that might be the only reason you buy them. Then there are the whole lot of recipe books that are just a collection of recipes, no instructions or information aside from the title of the book itself.
It’s not like you can just grab a book off the shelf and know what to do. Most of these recipes are not that detailed, and in fact, sometimes they are wrong or outdated. On top of that, the instructions that the publishers give you are often vague at best. If you need a recipe for a cake, be prepared to do some research.
I think what makes these books that much more frustrating is that they do not specify how much flour to use, how long to make it, or how much of each type of flour to use. In reality, they don’t even really know what they are doing. They’re just making up new recipes for what they think will work. Of course this is how most recipes are done.
I’ve had it since I was thirteen. I used to buy wholemeal flour, but I never enjoyed the taste of it, mostly because of the way my grandmother made it. I would eat it as a sort of special treat because it didn’t really taste like any other type of flour, and I had a lot of it. However, when I switched to wholemeal flour I actually found that I liked it better.