[Sca-cooks] Rice flour

[kingstaste at mindspring.com]

This brings up a question I've often wondered about.  Does glutinous rice
actually contain gluten, or does it just produce more of the gummy
consistency that all rice can achieve to some extent?  And if it isn't
gluten, what is that quality/component called?
Christianna


Yes, glutinous rice flour is available commercially; I used to
routinely add a little into my bread dough.  Even glutinous rice
doesn't have as much gluten as hard wheat; I felt that it made the
bread somewhat moister and more fine-grained, so I could cut it
thinner.  I've most often found the Japanese kind, in a white
cardboard box of about a pound labelled "Mochigome", at ordinary
grocery stores (albeit in large, multi-ethnic cities like San Diego
and New York).
                                     John Elys