[Sca-cooks] Uses for rice flour?

[Jane Boyko]

Take a look on the internet for other uses of rice flour.  For the past three 
years I have cooked a feast for a group of people recreating 1638 England.  
Since one of the women has some serious allergy issues I make one of many 
different things so that she can enjoy almost the same product.  She is 
allergic to any shape of wheat flour as well as sugar.  I can tell you it 
makes for a very interesting cooking time to deal with substitutions.  I have 
made pie shells and bread so far with the rice flour but not noodles though I 
can buy rice noodles in Chinese grocery stores and I can buy pre-packaged 
mixes for bread and other things using rice flour.  The textures are 
different and it depends on the type of rice flour which is used.  I also 
have had to add other products, such as potato starch etc, to the doughs to 
get the correct consistency for baking.  For this particular type of recipe I 
relied on the internet to give me the recipes I needed so that I didn't have 
to experiment.

Marina

On 29/03/05 01:23 am, Mark S. Harris wrote:
> 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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