can i substitute all purpose flour with arrowroot or healthier flour in recipes?

Answer 1

http://www.joyofbaking.com/flour.html

Answer 2

Substitute For Arrowroot Flour

Answer 3

Bread flour does not have baking powder or baking soda or anything even remotely similar added to it. Cake flour has the additives that help it rise. Not bread flour Bread flour is a particular type of flour that has a hight protein count than other flours. This means it has higher gluten which will give the sough more structure. It allows the dough to rise and hold onto the trapped carbon dioxide that is given off by the yeast. Yeast eat the carbohydrates/sugars and then give off Carbon Dioxide. This is what gives the bread rise and its where the little bubbles and inclusions come from that you see when you slice a loaf of bread. If you used bread flour in cookies or pastries it would mean that they would come out tougher. Chewier. If you swap regular flour for bread flour in breads... it may work. There is a chance you could pull it off. But you would really need to keep a eye on the needing time and the time you allow the bread to rise. Its best, if possible to stick with the recipe and use the correct flours that the recipe calls for. Its like building a wall with bad concrete. It might still stand. But the chances are the project will collapse and you will have wasted the effort, time and money.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Sure.

You can replace regular white flour with a whole grain flour - sift the flour and use 1/4 less than the recipe calls for. In a bread recipe, this would translate as 4 cups regular flour = 3 cups whole grain.

Arrowroot is a gluten free flour, and is used more as a thickener, like corn starch. 2 tablespoons of flour = 1 tablespoon arrowrooot.

Kim

Answer 6

Replacement For Arrowroot

Answer 7

Arrowroot is not a flour but a starch like corn starch. If you are trying to thicken something sauce, gravy, fruit pie. you can use flour, but be careful it lumps much easier and you will need more flour than the amount of arrowroot called for. If my memory serves me well 2-3 times as much

Answer 8

Arrowroot is not a flour or a substitute for flour-- but you can buy healthy types of flours and combine them. Arrowroot is used for thickening sauces, not for baking cookies.

Answer 9

You can substitute all-purpose white wheat flour with alternative flours like rice, bean, and tapioca, and potato flours, but it does change the finished product, as far as texture, how much it rises, etc., because of the lack of gluten and other properties in these alternative flours, starches.

"Because gluten has unique properties, it may take more than one ingredient to simulate different properties. There is no one single gluten substitute available. Depending on desired final product characteristics, different combinations of wheat alternatives (see "Alternatives to Wheat Flour") and other ingredients must be made and tested to achieve high quality alternative products. "

There are many gluten free baking cookbooks out there that you might want to take a look at that give substitutions, tips, and tricks for baking without wheat flour.

Here are some links:

http://www.recipenet.org/health/articles/substitutions.htm#withoutwheat

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Carol+Fenster&tag=glutenfreeliv-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1

http://www.amazon.com/Gluten-Free-Baking-Classics-Annalise-Roberts/dp/1572840811/sr=1-1/qid=1165251160/ref=pd_bbs_1/105-2649232-4675612?ie=UTF8&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/104-9248816-6025508?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=gluten+free+baking&Go.x=8&Go.y=12

Answer 10

i have a friend that uses almond flour bc shes on the carb diet.