Farine de blé T55

Farine de blé T55 55 359671 39016 8 is the classic French-style everyday wheat flour, the sort many bakers use for bread, brioche, tart shells and general home baking. By our assessment, its strength is balance: it is not as soft as cake flour and not as forceful as a very strong bread flour, so it handles a lot of standard jobs without drama. That balance also sets the limit, because it will not give the same chew or loft as a dedicated bread flour, and it is not meant for very tender cakes either. In use it feels like a quiet default, the flour that sits in the middle of the cupboard and gets reached for first when a recipe just says wheat flour. It belongs to the T55 lane, which is the familiar middle ground in French milling. The name’s numbers are catalogue identifiers, not a recipe code.