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Great Grains!

Barton Seaver - Great Grains!

This event was on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

Join Chef Barton Seaver to discuss the wide world of grains – from barley and corn to quinoa and winter wheat berries, and everything in between. Whole grains offer great health bene… Read More.

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Question:

When replacing All-Purpose flour in recipes with fresh ground flour, is it 1:1 or half and half, to maintain texture and rise?

— Luann Cronican

Answer:

You're trying to be like I could feel that coming you good. So with any recipe if you're straight up substituting and replacing AP flour. It's just gonna be. Test and see kind of thing. You can find recipes that are developed with wheat flour to start with but if you're just swapping out half and half is usually a good place to start or even three to one AP to whatever flower you're using. And if you're making an angel food cake. Maybe not you don't use TEF flower. But if you're making bread go ahead and substitute whatever percentage you want. I would say just like a misbehaving human cake indeed. So what's the Fallen Angel call an angel maybe fallen angel cake? No, that's a devil. You too. Dark. All right feel back, right? Yeah, we'll back but grinding your own flower is that's a effort of love. So I admire you for doing this especially because then you're going to juice your own beats and make your own pasta with it. So good for you for just diving into make sure your final rest. Yeah, would you Barton@rouxbe.com? I'd love to see I'd love to see what you what you create with these but in general for every cup of whole wheat flour that you substitute in you increase by increase the liquid by about two tablespoons one and a half to two tablespoons. And that's the end of my baking advice.
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