Cœur de blé

Cœur de blé is a plain wheat flour for everyday baking, the kind that sits between a very white all-purpose flour and the more rustic, darker ones. By our assessment, it is good at giving bread, cakes, and thickened sauces a familiar wheat taste without any fuss. The limit is also clear: it is not the flour for gluten-free cooking or for very specialized pastry work, and it will not do the whole job that a stronger bread flour or a wholemeal flour can. In use it is steady and unromantic, which is often exactly what a kitchen needs. The Astrina catalogue places it with wheat flours, and that is the right home for it. The own name carrying 348305, 191, and 8 is just catalogue housekeeping, not something a cook needs to think about.