Semolina Bread

Because of its high gluten content and golden color, this makes a spectacular loaf that, while delicious any way you serve it, seems best when dunked into the tomato sauce at the end of an Italian meal. Semolina (or durum, hard winter wheat, or pasta flour) is available in health-food stores and Italian groceries.

We have found that while a 100-percent semolina loaf is too heavy, a mixture of half semolina and half bread flour (or unbleached all-purpose flour) perfectly duplicates t