Semolina flour in Australia?

anthony

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Jul 28, 2009, 4:05:45 AM7/28/09

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I've tried posting this in rec.food.baking but as some might have
noticed, that's the preserve of spammers nowadays.
I'm just wondering if anyone here knows whether the word 'semolina' on
a packet of flour here guarantees that it's from durum flour wheat
germ and not from regular flour. I've looked at the fine print on some
packets and it's never specified, which makes me a bit dubious. Some
of my recipes for Italian-style bread do specify using some semolina
flour, meaning of course derived from durum -- do you think that in
Australia it's just a generic term for any crushed wheat-germ? It
wouldn't be the same thing at all, of course, in that case.

Tudor5

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Jul 28, 2009, 4:27:04 AM7/28/09

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See here www.agric.wa.gov.au/objtwr/imported_assets/.../durum_wheat.pdf

anthony

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Jul 28, 2009, 4:33:23 AM7/28/09

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From here, the link is broken. It took me to the agric.wa site, but
that said 'sadly, what you're looking for isn't here'.
It did lead me to a site telling potential growers that durum wheat
could offer better returns than conventional, but that doesn't really
answer my question...
Thanks anyway

ViLco

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Jul 28, 2009, 4:31:22 AM7/28/09

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anthony wrote:

>> See
>> herewww.agric.wa.gov.au/objtwr/imported_assets/.../durum_wheat.pdf

> From here, the link is broken. It took me to the agric.wa site, but
> that said 'sadly, what you're looking for isn't here'.
> It did lead me to a site telling potential growers that durum wheat
> could offer better returns than conventional, but that doesn't really
> answer my question...

Look at the 3 dots in that link: it probably got copied & pasted from a
google page or alike.
Tudor5 should copy it again paying attention to the google abbreviations
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Ophelia

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Jul 28, 2009, 5:21:54 AM7/28/09

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"anthony" <anthonyj...@netscape.net> wrote in message
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semolina
Noun
the large hard grains of wheat left after flour has been milled, used for
making puddings and pasta [Italian semolino]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/semolina

Hoges in WA

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Jul 28, 2009, 7:39:34 AM7/28/09

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"anthony" <anthonyj...@netscape.net> wrote in message

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What side of the country are you on?
I have Durum Semolina in my cupboard.

http://www.allaboutbread.com.au/

I get mine from a shop in Bunbury.

Hoges in WA

sf

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Jul 28, 2009, 9:13:18 AM7/28/09

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On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:31:22 GMT, "ViLco" <Vi...@ViLco.invalid> wrote:

>Look at the 3 dots in that link: it probably got copied & pasted from a
>google page or alike.
>Tudor5 should copy it again paying attention to the google abbreviations

and post a tiny link too http://tinyurl.com/

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Jul 28, 2009, 9:22:46 AM7/28/09

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Probably hobbled by the Intranet

Try this

http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/objtwr/imported_assets/content/fcp/cer/wh/cp/durum_wheat.pdf

If that does not work do your own google and type in
Farm note 80/2004:production package Durham wheat [wa agric]

Mark Thorson

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Jul 28, 2009, 1:44:37 PM7/28/09

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Semolina can be made from any type of wheat.
A hard wheat like durum will give you more
semolina per pound of wheat, but all wheats
will produce some semolina when milled.

Milling reduces the wheat berry to particles.
The protein-rich heavy particles are called
semolina. The starch-rich light particles
are called dunst. Intermediate particles
are called middlings.

Flours are blends of these particles adapted
for particular purposes. A cake flour will
have more dunst, while a pasta flour will
have more semolina.