SC - Australian Cornflour - Definitive answer?
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Tue Aug 22 21:00:13 PDT 2000
Lee-Gwen Booth wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Adamantius
>
> > the rice flour sometimes included in British shortbread recipes to
> > soften the overall flour mix. It's not there because rice is the first
> > thing one thinks of in connection with shortbread...
>
> Curious - rice flour _is_ one of the first things I associate with
> shortbread, that and butter.
Anything to make a liar outta me ; ) . On the other hand, why is all
that butter in there to shorten it if rice flour has no gluten?
Actually, most of the shortbread recipes I have seen, with the exception
of _some of_ the British ones, don't call for rice flour. Usually a soft
wheat flour, like pastry or cake flour.
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy
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