Bread Flour

[onelasttime]

Im making bread in my bread maker and I've been buying the bread mixes. I want to try making bread from scratch so I just wanted to know what type of flour do you use and what brand?
I went to my local IGA and they had a huge bag of homebrand bread flour, I was unsure so I thought I would check my local woolies,and they didnt have any bread flour.
So I was really unsure if you can use SR flour.

[bluey]

Bread flour is better, it's stronger. I wouldn't use SR flour to make bread

[Nex]

Bread flour, also called 'strong' flour is essential.

Plain flour makes terrible bread and SR is even worse (best saved for scones)

[aardvark]

Lauke make decent bread flours.

[sups]

Oh since we are at bread making can i use the bread flour also to make bread without the bread maschine( i mean manually?)