[Sca-cooks] Help please...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Robin Carroll-Mann:
>Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
>
>>
>>Use the eye you saved to find your way to the nearest Indian 
>>grocery, where that eye will see bags of gram dal flour, which is 
>>apparently made from hulled, split mung beans.
>>
>>We used to cheat at one place I worked and use gram dal to make 
>>socca, which is supposed to be made from chick peas.
>>Adamantius
>
>Alternatively, you could have bought a bag of besan, which is chickpea flour.

Yep. But the choice was also connected in part with what was easily 
available, locally. In Drakey's case, I'd suspect gram is both 
readily available (what with that whole Anglo-culture adoption of 
Indian cuisines thing going on) and a more appropriate product.

But no argument on besan as a better substitute for chickpea flour. 
It's just that gram was a block away, and looked, tasted, and 
performed similarly.

Adamantius

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