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Coeur de Blé

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mikejd

Coeur de Blé

I was trying to follow a french recipe for buckwheat pancakes and it mentions needing a coffee spoon of 'farine de ble coeur de blé'. I've been trying to find out what that is since I can't work out what 'wheat flour heart of wheat' is. A web search doesn't find anything and google translate just deals with the words and gives me 'wheat heart' back which doesn't help either.

I hope someone here can help.

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Patf

It seems to be a fine flour specially for patisserie. Also prevents lumps (grumeaux.)

Masterchef and Francine make it.

"a coffee spoonful " sounds strange. French spoon sizes are different from UK ones.

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mikejd

Thanks. It sounds like a decent quality cake or pastry flour might fit the bill.