On test: Plain flour, protein 11.3% Bread flour, protein 12% 00 flour, protein 12.5% Plain flour is surprisingly excellent for croissants, takes a good bit of kneading, and this isn’t exactly a fair test with the others as I used a different folding technique (1 x book fold, 2 x letter fold was used with the plain flour croissants) and I didn’t control the proof well, so it took several hours to reach triple the size. But these are just lovely and short… Not exactly authentic, a bit shorter than a typical croissant but quite delicious. The following were made…
