No flour has proved more exciting to me than pastry flour -- a soft, finely ground grain that shares many characteristics with cake flour. What's the difference between cake and pastry flour?

February 2 is Chandeleur, so it's time to make pancakes that will make you squirm with pleasure. It's all in the details, and ...

Similarly, pastry needs to be mixed quickly. This helps keep it cool but also minimises development of the flour's gluten content, otherwise the pastry may become too elastic, difficult to roll ...

The secret is to handle the pastry as little as possible, and give it time to rest before baking. Put the flour and salt in a large bowl and add the cubes of butter. Use your fingertips to rub the ...

Indeed, constraints posed to apprentice volunteers and to the bakery and pastry-shop managers were ... to anticipated levels of concentrations of flour dust), as we had expected.