Farine de blé T 45

Farine de blé T 45 is the fine white wheat flour bakers reach for when they want light cakes, biscuits, puff pastry, and plain doughs that should stay soft. By our assessment, its strength is its clean behavior: it is low in bran, easy to mix, and gives a smooth crumb instead of a heavy wholemeal feel. The price of that neatness is less flavor and less fiber, so it is not the flour for hearty loaves or rustic bread with bite. In practice it is the most forgiving kind of wheat flour, the one that disappears into batters and creams without fighting them. It sits at the refined end of the flour shelf, closer to cake work than to village bread. The catalogue’s T45 label matches that role exactly, and the rating reflects how well it does it.