All-purpose flour

I had been making our own yeast-free bread for several months, or at least I had thought I had, when I realized that our all-purpose flour actually contains yeast.

I had been using King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour. It contains malted barley flour as one of its ingredients, and even identifies it on the package as "a natural yeast". Apparently some people who think they are sensitive to wheat may actually be sensitive to the malted barley flour that is often mixed in with various wheat flours.

Instead of all-purpose flour, I now use King Arthur White Whole Wheat Flour that I buy at Trader Joe's. This is not a bleached flour. It is milled from a strain of white wheat, and has a much milder taste than most 100% whole wheat flours.

In many of my recipes, I use approximately half white whole wheat flour and half regular whole wheat flour.