[Sca-cooks] Help please...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach 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.

Well, I was, and they may well have carried besan, too, but the boss 
sent me for gram, and when you have something like 43 seconds before 
you have to be at your station, and it's your first job out of 
school, these niceties get lost in the shuffle sometimes... ;-)

A.
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