Flour in Germany

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This should maybe be in living overseas but I need help! We are having yorkshire pudding withdrawl symptoms.
I can make them myself, work every time like a treat in the UK but over here they go wrong. I figure it must be the flour. They have plain flour for sale, standard has a number 405 whatever that means and I have seen that you can get other plain flours with numbers like 800, 1200 along those lines. Anyone know what they mean? Maybe I need a different number as UK plain standard flour is maybe different to the German standard IYSWIM. If I added cornflour would that help maybe ?

You want 405, I think. Do you use SR flour for yorkshire pudding?

Could you ask in the shop which flour they recommend for making pancakes as I imagine that type of flour would work well.

Oh, no, you want 550. 405 is pastry. cite

the different types of flour are explainedhere, the number refers to the mineral content.
maybe try the 550 type? Wiki describes 550 as equivalent to the US all-purpose flour.

Great, will try and get some soon - we've been without yorkshires since July, imagine