Cake Flour For Pie Crust

Cake Flour For Pie Crust. Cake flour is not a good choice for pie crust. Add egg yolk and.

The protein content of pastry flour is about 8-10 but not as low as that of cake flour. As well cake. Plain corn meal 1 Tbsp.

For a pie crust.

When you add water to flour some of its protein turns into gluten an elastic substance that gives baked goods the structure they need to hold together and to rise when appropriate. They fell apart when cut and the top crust of the fruit pie even. Canadian Maple Cream Pie. The flour used in cake baking does not have enough protein to be workable.