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Baking with unmalted bread flour

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treeowl

Baking with unmalted bread flour

I'm almost out of my usual King Arthur bread flour, and it's proving rather difficult to get more. I happen to have a 5 lb sack of Heartland Mill no-additive strong white bread flour lying around that I bought a while back to try to bake for a friend who's deathly allergic to barley malt. What changes am I likely to need to make to bake yeasted bread with this? What about sourdough bread? I know that sprouted wheat flour doesn't have as much amylase as malted barley flour, but I do happen to have some of that on hand too. Would it be worth adding some of that? If so, how much?

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idaveindy

Is your friend allergic to the barley, or to the malt?  Is the friend allergic to wheat malt, or malted wheat?

Sprouted wheat is "close" to malted wheat.  So if your friend has tried malted wheat or sprouted wheat and is okay with it, then it would work.  

But I don't know of a good substitution ratio.