Tipo 00 flour
Tipo 00 flour appears in fresh-pasta products and in the dough for Sciacca’s fried cassatelle.
- Italian name
- Farina tipo 00
- Pastry reference
- Cassatella saccense dough
At the table
Caputo identifies its Pasta fresca e gnocchi flour as tipo 00. Visit Sicily uses 00 in the cassatella dough. The same classification can therefore appear in different recipes; it does not make every bag identical in strength, protein or intended use.
Our suggestion: check both the flour’s classification and the producer’s intended application. Follow the recipe’s flour choice rather than assuming that 00 and durum semolina are interchangeable.
