ALL-PURPOSE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of All-purpose

... used in the preparation of cakes may be bread, pastry, or blend flour, depending on the kind of cake desired. While a blend, or an all-purpose, flour makes a satisfactory cake, pastry flour, which is milled from soft winter wheat, or better still, cake flour, is more nearly ideal as the excess gluten is removed, and it is much finer milled; hence it produces a lighter, finer, more delicate cake. Wheat flour is the kind that is generally ...

— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences