[Sca-cooks] Help please...

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> Also sprach Robin Carroll-Mann:
>
>> 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

True -- whatever works.  I jumped to the conclusion that you were 
shopping in an Indian grocery, and I couldn't imagine such a store not 
carrying besan.

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