Another thing that I haven't been able to find yet in Switzerland is bread flour for using in bread making machines. It may be on the shelf with the other flour, but my German is very poor so I may be missing it. Then again, the bread here is so good that maybe people don't make their own bread?

Angela

Bread can be made with really any of the available flour types in the large supermarkets (i.e. Coop or Mirgros). I assume you are looking for a flour with a high protein/gluten content. In this case, your choices become rather simple. At Coop, look for Halbweiss flour - at Migros, look for helles Urdinkelmehl. Both are quite adequate for most any bread you are making. If you are looking for whole grain flour, then I would suggest a trip to the nearest Reformhaus and select something with a high protein content (except Rye flour, which has little gluten in it). Protein is called Eisweiss/protéines/proteine on packages. For a strong bread-type flour, look for those with percentages above 12%...

Good luck,
Jack

Hi Angela,
Oh yes they definitely do make their own. Note though that the ready-mix you can buy from Coop and Migros is so expensive that it kills any reason and flour generally in Switzerland is for some strange reason incredibly expensive but you can follow Jack's great advice or alternatively drive 20 minutes (from SG) down the road cross into Germany and fill your boots (!) with flour or ready mix for a quarter the price from Aldi or Lidl and then Bread making for less than a Frank per loaf is great fun...

Richard