Questions tagged [flour]
Questions should be about flour (wheat or any other kind) uses, storage, etc.
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What are the most effective wheat flour substitutes?
While not something I'm overly dogmatic about I try to keep my carbohydrate intake relatively low, especially during the day so as to not become tired.
I've found that in some recipes, particularly ...
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What is it about Malthouse flours that makes them so "special"?
I have recently started making bread in a breadmaker. I generally prefer the taste of white bread but for health reasons try to make loaves with as much fibre as possible. I have tried multiple ...
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Does bleaching or milling flour remove vitamins?
Does bleaching or milling flour remove vitamins? Is this why some flours are enriched, even non-bleached ones, with, e.g., "niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), riboflavin (...
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Substituting pancake mix for flour
Can I use pancake mix (just whole wheat flour and baking powder ingredients) instead of regular flour to make a cake? (I have a recipe for whole wheat chocolate cake). Would I just leave out the ...
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Is double milled flour the same as 00 type flour?
Is double milled flour the same as 00 type flour ? I want to buy some semolina 00 type flour but I can find only double milled semolina flour ? Are they the same ?
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Kneading apple strudel dough
My instructions for kneading strudel dough include slamming the dough against the floured board a few times during kneading. What is the purpose of slamming the dough?
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Does this flour dish exist in other countries, and what is its name?
I found a very interesting old dish in Ukrainian cuisine. In this video a woman cooks it https://youtu.be/-eq9ggNSWjg
It is a variation of pasta soup, for which the most salient feature is that the ...
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How do I make the dough for soup dumplings?
I recently tried to make soup dumplings in the style of the Din Tai Fung restaurant. Their dumplings are relatively small and have very soft and thin skin that is still strong enough to not leak out ...
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Can I make cornbread without flour?
I am in the UK, but acquired a taste for cornbread from previous visits to the US (it is almost unknown here).
I’ve successfully made cornbread in the past and have quite a lot of cornmeal in my ...
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What are the cheapest options for a thickening agent for making soups?
I'm trying to make soups (e.g. tomato soups, with some veggies, chillies, etc) and would like to make its cost lowest possible.
One problem that I have to solve is choosing the right thickening agent ...
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Is flouring meat necessary in stews (specifically ossobuco)?
I'm specifically wondering this in the context of ossobuco, but this probably goes for a range of stew recipes. Every ossobuco recipe I've come across tells you to dredge the meat in a (light) coating ...
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Wheat-based gluten-free pie crust?
I am trying to find a way to make a pie crust, with wheat flour, that's somehow gluten free. I only have one idea: reverse creaming, but with a pie crust. However, I know that gluten will still slowly ...
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How should I pick a flour volume to weight conversion for an arbitrary recipe?
There are a variety of weight-to-volume conversions online for flour, with considerable variation even among reputable sources:
King Arthur Flour says 4.25oz/cup but in their measuring tips article ...
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Flour is many years expired but still looks good
I have a bag of flour in my pantry that expired 3 years ago, but it looks and smells perfectly fine. Is it still safe to eat?
EDIT: To clarify, today is July 3rd, 2018, and the flour best before date ...
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Is there a meaningful difference between potato starch and potato flour?
Is there a difference between potato starch and potato flour? Corn starch is made from the endosperm of the corn kernel does this also apply to potato starch? I have tried both and I cannot really ...
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What does flour do to cheesecake?
After looking through cheesecake recipes with a co-worker we discovered that many cheesecake recipes include ~1/4 cup of flour while other recipes contain none at all.
What effect does flour have when ...
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Create my own high-gluten flour by mixing vital wheat gluten and bread/AP flour?
Has anyone had success with giving their bread or all-purpose flour an extra gluten kick by adding vital wheat gluten? I would like to know what ratio to mix the the two ingredients with, or perhaps ...
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Why does homemade pasta using wholemeal flour break easily as compared to all purpose flour?
Why does wholemeal pasta break more easily than pasta that is made from all-purpose flour?
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Is toasted flour a good idea for bread?
Some time ago, I had the ridiculous idea of baking flour on it's own. I then found out that it turns yellowish and that the proteins inside might get destroyed. Can baked flour be used to make bread, ...
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breading/crumbing: mixing the eggs and flour?
i was wondering why the recipes for crumbed/breaded foods always say that we should dredge in flour first, then dip in eggs, then coat with crumbs. Would it work if I mixed the eggs and flour to make ...
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Sponge cake: how the proportions of the ingredients change the result
The common recipe (at least in Italy) for sponge cake is:
total weight of eggs (yolks + whites) = X
sugar = flour = 2/3 X
I'm aware that the ratio of the ingredients affect the final result. For ...
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How much cake flour equals 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour? [duplicate]
Making instant pot lemon cake. Calls for 1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour ALL I have is cake flour.
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Can I make buckwheat flour starting from toasted buckwheat?
My wife asked me to buy "buckwheat" and I did, but she meant buckwheat flour (for making bread) and I got toasted buckwheat instead.
I don't want to throw it out if I don't have to. We have a mortar ...
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How to get rid of the taste of flour in homemade bakery?
I usually get random cookie and cake recipes from the internet and try them. They are good but all of them have floury taste to me. Possible culprits are the flour I use and how I mix and bake dough. ...
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Oat Flour for pasta not rolling well?
I experimented by substituting all purpose flour with oat flour that I ground up myself from organic oatmeal for pasta intended for ravioli.
I used roughly 3 cups of oat flour : 4 eggs ratio,
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Can you make red bean paste from bean flour?
I was having a conversation with someone about making a dessert from red bean paste and they mentioned the process being arduous because they had to cook the beans for two hours, and then mash them.
I ...
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What needs to be added to quinoa flour make it "behave" like all-purpose flour?
I'm a Type 2 diabetic who loves bread and pasta, so I'm exploring ways of making my favorite foods more "blood sugar friendly", hoping that I can re-integrate them into my diet in a healthy way.
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Does flour have yeast?
This feels like it should be an easy question to find an answer to, but all I'm finding are unreliable sources saying both yes and no.
I'm referring specifically to any kind of store-bought flour used ...
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Can I replace flour in a soup recipe with a 1 to 1 gluten free flour?
I have celiac disease and must eat a gluten free diet.
I saw a recipe for creamy chicken and mushroom soup, and it looked delicious! However, it called for 1/4 cup all-purpose flour. Would it be ...
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What kind of flour is needed for strudel/fillo dough?
In Hungary, they sell "rétesliszt", strudel-flour. What makes it better for strudel? Is it higher gluten? Lower? Softer? Harder? Which flour in a typical (USA) supermarket comes closest to rétesliszt?
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How to remove quinoa bitterness (with many restrictions) doing chapatis
I am doing chapatis with quinoa flour. How can I remove or hide the bitterness of the quinoa?
There are several constraints for the solution: no egg, wheat, soy, dairy, corn, rice, meat.
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How best to use gluten free all purpose flour?
In the grocery store mixup, I got a bunch of gluten free flour. I don't have additives like xanthan gum but would like to bake bread and other recipes so I don't need to go to the store for a few ...
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Which type and grain size of rice (flour) is best for which use case?
What type of rice and which grain-size as flour is best for which use case?
I have got a grain mill and am going to do lots of gluten-free recipes with rice flour. From cake, via pudding, to mochi (...
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Is Finger millet flour boiled in water safe to consume [closed]
I boiled one tablespoon of Finger millet flour in one glass of water for two minutes and then added rock salt and drank it, it was ok, but is it the correct method to cook Finger millet four?
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Are there advantages to pre-chilling flour before mixing into pies and biscuits?
Whenever I make pies or biscuits, I'm obsessed with maintaining the solid, cool state of the butter. In all seriousness, I would do the entire mixing/shaping process (before baking) in a walk-in ...
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I need to judge whether my bread flour is ok or not. 50LB bag 11 months old
The bag was packed tight. It was in standard flour sack and inside a thick cardboard shipping box, there were a few hundred pounds on top of it, on a skid. It was not wrapped in plastic. Mostly the ...
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What is the purpose of adding egg when flouring and deep frying chicken?
Many recipes (e.g. orange chicken) call for the chicken to be coated in flour, the beaten egg (whole, whole with a dash of milk or just the whites), coated again with flour and then deep fried. The ...
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Is there any benefit in adding egg to a durum semolina pasta?
I'll be extruding pasta this weekend to use in a constructed food. I have good durum semolina but I'm wondering is whether adding egg will increase the overall strength of the macaroni and spaghetti. ...
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Can I save flour dredge used for raw chicken for a later batch? [duplicate]
What if I have like 50 pieces of chicken and I only fry 25 but I have 25 left would it be ok to use the same flour considering it’s the same batch of chicken
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Making Roux when Flour is Missing
I like making sauces from scratch, starting with a roux. Today, I discovered there's no flour in the kitchen. A quick trip to the store is not possible.
What could I use instead?
(Note that my ...
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How to add creaminess to cooked corn chowder; mine is too thick?
The first time I was making corn chowder, I used a recipe with a little olive oil, vegetable broth, milk, 20oz of frozen corn, Greek yogurt, red potatoes, onion, bell pepper, garlic, salt, pepper, a ...
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Do you de-hull seeds when making pumpkin seed flour?
I was interested in finding ways to use leftover pumpkin seeds, so I thought I'd try to grind them up into flour.
Although I found a few websites (e.g., here and here) that mention doing this, none ...
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Can I replace matzo meal with flour in a popover recipe?
My favorite popover recipe includes matzo meal, which is easy to find during Passover. I run it through a blender to make it fine before mixing it with the other ingredients.
Can I substitute regular ...
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How to tell AP flour from self-rising flour? [duplicate]
I have a tupperware container of all-purpose flour, and another of self-rising flour. Sadly, I did not label them, and now I've forgotten which is which.
Is there an easy way to tell them apart?
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What is the ratio of fat to flour in shortcrust pastry?
What is the ratio of fat to flour in shortcrust pastry? I cannot find anything on the matter, and it said somewhere that it was 4:1 but I've been told differently in the past, so I've come here to ask ...
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Gluten free alternatives [closed]
I've been baking with gluten free flour by Doves Farm for years but recently got accidentally introduced to baking with ground almonds as an alternative. This has been something of a revelation as the ...
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Can flour be made from breadcrumbs? [duplicate]
Can flour be made from breadcrumbs, or is flour → bread an irreversible chemical reaction?
I'm wondering if new bread can be made from ground stale bread (i.e., breadcrumbs).
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Why can you eat raw oat flour but not raw wheat flour?
I see recipes that use raw oat flour. But I have read that eating raw wheat flour causes samonella. What is it about oats that allows you to eat them raw?
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Why are we not generally using egg in Buckwheat crêpe (or galette) but only in Wheat Flour crêpe?
I was doing so research over the internet to know why egg are typically use in wheat flour crêpe but not in Buckwheat crêpe. Is there's a reason for it or it is just a simple question of recipe ?
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3 day old sourdough starter splits after feeding
My starter consists out of 150gr All purpose, 60 grams of whole wheat and 210 grams of water.
On day 2 it bubbled nicely, but I fed it only with half a feeding fearing it would otherwise not stay ...
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