[Sca-cooks] Uses for rice flour?

[Mark S. Harris]

Margaret Fitzwilliam said in her original message:

> >I have a
> > canister of some substance, in the quantities that would suggest it
> > came in a 5-pound bag, that I can't identify. It might be rice flour.

> Well, it's in my baking cabinet, so it is edible. I know a number of
> things which it is *not*, because they are labeled or they live in 
> their
> original packaging. It's probably been in there at least six months, 
> but
> no longer than a year. I don't usually cook with rice flour, but I 
> can't
> think of anything else it might be, which is why I was wondering if
> there was a good way to tell what it was.

Five *pounds* of rice flour? The main thing I've heard rice flour 
mentioned for here on this list is as a thickener. And that seems like 
an awfully large amount of thickener. Or are there some other uses of 
rice flour? Noodles, perhaps?

Stefan
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