In response to Betty Hodge, who wrote
Will someone please explain to me the difference in vital wheat gluten and
wheat gluten flour. ...
From Beth Hensperger's book, The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook:
"Vital wheat gluten - also known as just plain gluten - is made by washing
the starch from the endosperm in wheat, leaving pure plant protein that is
dried, ground, and marketed as a powdered extract. It is not a flour."
She describes wheat gluten flour as a mixture of vital wheat gluten and
white flour - in a 25-to-75 proportion - and emphasizes that vital wheat
gluten and wheat gluten flour are not interchangeable. Vital wheat gluten
is the concentrated form.
Hope this helps.
Martha