Re: What to do with odd flours

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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 05:21:48 -0600

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> Subject: What do I do with these flours?

> Hi! Please help!

> I bought a bunch of flours

> Please help me with recipes, suggestions,

> I have:

> 8# Mathia Flour (lentils & peas)

> 18# Ondhwa flour (rice, split chick peas & lentils)

> 1 1/2 # Alguashte (pumpkin seed flour)

> 4 1/2# Pea flour

> 4 1/2# Plantain banana flour

> 6 1/2# Fava bean flour

> 3# water chestnut flour

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> I also got 8 packages of green bean starch sheets.

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> Thanks so much, this list is a real life-saver!

>

> Joan

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> Have a great day!

>

I love your optimistic outlook :-) Hope others can help give you some

great suggestions.

I'd suggest for the ones from legumes (chick peas, lentils, fava bean,

pea) to use them wherever a recipe calls for garbanzo bean flour or soy

flour.

I make a very simple gf flour mix I keep in a 1/2 gallon container in my

frig so I can whip up pancakes, etc at a moment's notice. It's simply 2

cups brown rice flour, 1 cup garbanzo bean flour, 1 cup potato starch. I

stir and shake this together and use it in cookies, etc unless I want a

specific amount of certain flours. It works well for converting family

recipes to gf ones (but bread recipes don't convert to gf this easily).

Your 18# Ondhwa flour (rice, split chick peas & lentils) -- does it give

ratio of rice to the legumes? if so, and if it's in a similar ratio as

1/2 and 1/2, you could figure out how to add potato starch to make a gf

flour mix from it. Might take a calculator and/or experimentation.

The pumpkin seed and water chestnut flours might be high protein flours

similar to millet flour. If they are, you can use them to add protein to

cookies and pancakes in place of or combined with garbanzo bean or soy

flours (other legume flours), or depending if they have a strong flavor,

you might want to use 1/2 of one of these flours along with 1/2 of a bean

flour for that portion of your recipe.

Fava bean and garbanzo bean are often mixed together and can be used any

time soy is listed.

Keep a page of notes on how these flours worked for various things so

that in the future you may want to get more, avoid ever getting them

again, or pass along your experience to the rest of us.

Carol in Oregon