[Sca-cooks] Different flours, was Cookie Exchange

[Terry Decker]

Rice is a grain.  Grains are cereal grasses.  Not all grains contain gluten.

Gluten consists of two classes of insoluable proteins, gliadin and glutenin.
Gliaden forms short, weak gluten strands.  Glutenin forms long, strong
gluten strands.  Wheat has both gliaden and glutenin.  Rye primarily has
gliaden.  Rice has neither.

In breadmaking, the gluten forms strands of molecules which trap (rather
than form) the carbon dioxide bubbles produced by the leavening.

Bear

> Gluten is a protein that is found in wheat and other grains, rice is a
grass.
> The protein forms strands that swell and form bubbles when the leavening
> occurs.  It is also what makes bread stretchy.
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> Cadoc