I don't bake often but I've gotten pretty good
at flour substitutions to make a recipe gluten free.
Not exact matches
My first guess is always if you made any ingredient
substitutions at all especially of the
flour blend.
Overseas, they've looked
at adding coconut
flour to wheat
flour based foods: Breads with coconut
flour addition up to 10 % ranked «good» and 20 % ranked «satisfactory», whereas 30 %
substitution [ranked] negatively affected appearance, texture and overall acceptability of the product, ranked «poor» in sensory evaluation.
I live in England and we don't use pumpkins very much
at all, basically they're in the shops for a couple of weeks around Halloween and that's it, and it's pretty much impossible to buy canned pumpkin puree here, so I boiled the pumpkin and then liquidised it to make the puree, and I had to make a few other
substitutions for things I didn't have - I used creme fraiche instead of yogurt, dark brown sugar instead of light, and cake
flour doesn't exist here so I just used plain white
flour.
I did make a couple
substitutions; I used regular whole wheat
flour because I just found the white whole wheat
at a store finally & wanted to use the other stuff up first.
Click on the Gluten - Free tab
at the top of page for additional information on how to cook gluten - free including ingredient
substitutions and recipes for alternative gluten - free
flour blends.
I have 7 different
flours at home right now but none of them are this sorghum
flour: (Do you have any recommendations for
substitutions please?
Also as a student I've been incredibly luck in that for now I can get prescription mixes so
substitution will usually be important to me (although I'm looking
at bulk buying gluten - free granola grains and your recipes may persuade me to get
flours as well).
Overseas, they've looked
at adding coconut
flour to wheat
flour based foods: Breads with coconut
flour addition up to 10 % ranked «good» and 20 % ranked «satisfactory», whereas 30 %
substitution [ranked] negatively affected appearance, texture and overall acceptability of the product, ranked «poor» in sensory evaluation.
This recipe has only been tested with cassava
flour, so any
substitutions will be
at your own risk of the recipe not working out.
Granted, each
flour behaves differently, so you need to take that into account when making
substitutions, but
at least you know you have the proper quantity!
I followed the recipe exactly, using the weight measurements to measure the
flours and making no
substitutions, but the dough was * incredibly * sticky
at that point and would have been completely impossible to roll out.
Some
substitutions that were made include coconut
flour instead of almond
flour (we used Arrowhead Mills which we just picked up from Walmart) and Thai Kitchen Coconut Cream, which was also available
at Walmart.