SC - Bread Machine Trenchers, was Plastic Ware
CBlackwill at aol.com
CBlackwill at aol.com
Mon Apr 17 21:36:02 PDT 2000
In a message dated 4/17/00 8:07:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, troy at asan.com
writes:
>
> You might see if you have access to an Indian grocery: chapatti flour is
> a very fine whole wheat flour ground from a rather durum-ish hard wheat.
> It tastes like whole wheat but produces a much lighter leavened bread
> than stone-ground whole-wheat flour, both because it is finer and
> therefore the bran doesn't cut the gluten strands in the same way, and
> also because it has more of the proteins that combine to form gluten.
>
This flour makes excellent bread (and you can mix in a little whole wheat
flour for extra flavor). I purchase mine from a store called "India Sweets
and Spices", but I am not sure if they are international or merely local. It
is exceptionally good when used to make...you guessed it...Chapati. Now,
does anyone have an Indian reference for Chapati in period? I still make
them at events for lunch, but it would be an added bonus if they were around
in the Middle Ages.
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That such a trivial victory could put a smile on your face.
- Mark Burgess
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