Gold Medal Premium Quality Bread Flour for Baking, 5 lb

For the most part I bake the breads we eat at home instead of buying store-bought and have more flours in my freezer than I care to admit. I'll get one flour for one type of bread, another for a different bread, one for pizza, etc. So one day I couldn't find my favorite brand of bread flour and was ready to spend too much on an alternative when I stumbled on Gold Medal bread flour when shopping on Amazon and decided to give it a try. I am SO happy I did because for my bread-baking purposes this flour does as nice of a job as my regular brand at a nice little savings too. I like to consistently buy the same brands of flours because I get used to how those flours perform for me, giving me more consistent baking results, which is why I was kind of sad when I couldn't find my regular brand of bread flour anywhere and decided to try this one. I honestly didn't even know that Gold Medal made a bread flour, never saw it in any of my stores, and wasn't sure what to expect before trying it since I've bought flours before that looked like something I would love but I didn't get the results with them that I wanted. With this one I got the results I wanted and am a happy camper, or I guess happy baker, knowing I can get this alternate bread flour quickly when I need it and at a good price too. In fact, I've been using this Gold Medal flour more regularly recently than my "regular" brand, so maybe I have two regulars now. For the types of breads I make for myself and my family, this definitely will become a staple. I don't know how it will do in a sourdough because I haven't made a sourdough with it yet, but for sandwich loaves, rolls, and things like that I think it's definitely worth giving a try. I'm glad I did.

I love this flour. I had to order it online because I wasn’t able to find it in my local stop and shop lately. It feeds my sourdough starter very well!

I have try to bake bread and make a pizza with all purpose flour and the taste is bitter. I tried bread flour and the taste was different and so much better. I baked a pizza dough and dinner rolls. So grateful as a mom on a budget. We won’t be ordering pizza. I made my son a bacon and pepperoni pizza with mozzarella cheese. He was so happy.

I am using it to make pizza dough and it works great giving wonderful air bubbles on the edge

If you're expecting a box like the picture you're out of luck you're going to get a 5 pound bag. If that doesn't bother you, this is good bread flour at a good price. Not quite as good as KA it seems but it certainly does daily bread and biscuits just fine. For under a dollar a pound shipped to my rural front door, it's a winner. Here's a bread machine milk bread/roll/bun recipe I use at least 3x a week with this flour at the moment. 4 cups flour, leveled 1/2 packet yeast (1.5 tablespoons) 2 tablespoons butter, margarine or lard 3 tablespoons sugar (more for sweet rolls, up to 1/4 cup) 1 cup room temperature milk or cream 1 teaspoon salt Add ingredients in order recommended by your bread machine. Set to dough and let rise. Punch down, roll out into desired shape such as mini dinner rolls, hamburger buns or even braided bread. Cover with a damp tea towel or linen and allow to rise again, for 30 minutes to 2 hours depending on your climate and desired proof. Bake 8-12 minutes at 330 in a convection oven or 350 for 10-15 in a regular oven. Enjoy. Great for milk and cream just starting to turn, or near the date and it weirds you out. The yeast use the milk sugars, so it's safe. Plus you know, it gets baked. With a little salt and warm butter they are amazing. Dip the dough in baking soda water before baking for a "mall pretzel" like taste.

I can not make bread with out flour.

Use this to make my shokupan loafs. I would definitely recommend it. Always comes out great. And seems to build up protein well when kneading.

Makes good bread.

Love this flour!