Maida is finely ground refined wheat flour without any bran and closely resembles cake flour. Maida is referred to all purpose flour and is used in variety of Indian recipes like nan-khatai, vada-pav, naan, kulcha etc. as well as European recipes like bread, pizza, bun, cake etc. Maids is a common word in Indian kitchens and is also referred to as Maida pindi in Telugu, Maida mavu in Tamil and Malayalam. Maida - all purpose flour is also known as Weizenmehl 405 in German, and Patentbloem in Dutch.