Gluten free flour - was Re: White bread revisited

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>>> 2 cups corn starch

> 1/2 cup rice flour

> 1/2 cup potato starch

> 1/4 cup tapioca starch

> 1/4 cup sugar (not honey, this is to feed the yeast)

> 4 1/2 tsp. dry yeast

> 1 1/2 tsp xanthan gum

> 1 1/2 tsp salt

>>>

I haven't found tapioca starch yet - haven't exhausted all

possibilities though. What could I use instead?

I bought some besan flour (garbanzo bean flour) and am going to try

your bonzo bread. Is their anything else it is good for? I also found

some yellow pea flour. Any ideas for that?

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>I haven't found tapioca starch yet - haven't exhausted all

>possibilities though. What could I use instead?

I don't think there is a replacement for it ... you could use more rice

flour and add a couple of egg whites though, or more xanthan gum.

>I bought some besan flour (garbanzo bean flour) and am going to try

>your bonzo bread. Is their anything else it is good for? I also found

>some yellow pea flour. Any ideas for that?

Bonzo bread isn't mine ... I don't like cooking with bean flour (tho garbonzo

beans

aren't really beans) because of lectin issues and also I don't like the taste.

Some

folks love it though. I don't have enough experience with it to say though.

Heidi Jean

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> >I haven't found tapioca starch yet - haven't exhausted all

> >possibilities though. What could I use instead?

>

Potato starch or arrowroot starch subs equally well for tapioca starch.

Bob's Red Mill carries all of these on their website, but I've found that

going to Asian/Int'l grocery stores nets the same quality for substantially

less.

HTH!

--s

[Guest guest]

>>>Potato starch or arrowroot starch subs equally well for tapioca starch.

Bob's Red Mill carries all of these on their website, but I've found that

going to Asian/Int'l grocery stores nets the same quality for substantially

less.

HTH!<<<

Thanks for that. I'd been meaning to go to the Asian grocery store down the road

for a while, so I did and I've got some now.

Cheers,

Tas'.