Bleached vs Unbleached vs Bread

[thebratqueen]

Problem: I'm stuck in the house tomorrow and with nothing else to do I thought I'd try to make bagels, which I've never done before. I check my cookbook and find I've got all the ingredients I need except the right kind of flour. The recipe calls for unbleached all-purpose flour. I don't have that on hand. I've got bleached all-purpose and I've

Comments

[dwarfstar21]

I havn't made bagels at all, but I don't think it could make that much of a difference.

[phinnia]

Bleached vs. unbleached is, as I understand it, purely a nutrient and aesthetic thing. They pretty much interchange with each other; you can use one where the other is called for.
Bread flour is a harder flour with a higher gluten content. It would make things rise more, I believe... I've used AP flour where bread flour was called for with not that much difference in the end product but I haven't done the other way around since I don't usually buy bread flour. If it were me making bagels I'd just use the bleached AP flour that you've already got and have done with it.
Hope that helps!