Fabulous Flour Table

This is a repost from 6-03-09 and 9-21-11   Happy flour storage!!!!

This table is designed to help you decide which flours combine to make a great flour mix.

Good Luck in your mixes.

EXOTIC GRAINS http://www.usda.gov nutrients of 13,000 foods we eat
TYPE **supergrain	USE IN:	QUALITIES	SOURCE	STORAGE
Almond meal $$$	In breads, mixes, desserts, crusts,	High in Proteins,	Almonds ground in food processor or blender. I do it w/ rice flour	Fridge, freezer-tightly sealed, keeps 6 months
Amaranth ** $$$	In mixes bread, muffins, bagels, pasta, milk, nut butter, cookies, gravies, sauces, pancakes, flatbreads, doughnuts, dumplings, pasta.	Excellent filler grain, 1-3 grain mix	Bobs Red Mill, Arrowhead Mills, Walton wheat, grind fresh or harvest home.com specialfoods.com	Tightly sealed, fridge, freezer, keeps 1 yr.
Arrowroot (starch) $$	West Indian starch	Swap for cornstarch	Bobsredmill.com, Arrowhead Mills	Seal tightly on Shelf
Bean, black, pinto, white, garbanzo, fava, romano, $	In mixes, as thickeners, Indian foods, baking breads	High food value, pulses mixed with grains = complete protein	Grind alternating with rice flour, high moisture, BobsRedMill.com, or Asian/India market	Shelf
Buckwheat ** aka groats (Kasha)	Pancakes, cakes, baking	Flavorful, grainy, rhubarb relative	Bobs, Arrowhead mills, grocery stores, walton feed,	Tightly sealed, 6 mo.
Coconut	Mixes, Can comprise as much as 10-30% mix	Good fiber, protein	Bobs, tropicaltraditions.com simplycoconut.com	Refrigerator, freezer
Cornstarch	Thickening- soups, sauces, and mixes	Bland, blending power	Grocery shelf, or asian store.	Shelf, cool dry
Corn flour, meal	Muffins, spoonbreads. tortillas, hot cereal	Gritty,	Grind from popcorn	Shelf, cool dry, years
Green Pea	Soups, thickening	Strong flavor,	Grind	Shelf
Flax **	In everything	Heart, colon healthy	Coffee grind, blender	Fridge, freezer, dark
Millet **	Breads, salads,	Grandma’s favorite	Grind, or steamed whole	Grain– Shelf, cool dry Flour, freezer/fridge
Nut, hazelnut, pecan, walnut,	Dessert crusts	Flaky, flavorful	Grocery stores - grind in coffee grinder or blender	Fridge, freezer
Quinoa ** flakes, flour, grain	Salads, tabouli, in place of couscous, flakes in place of oatmeal, sprouts 4 hrs.	Exotic, complete protein.	Bobs, quinoa.net, Wikipedia suggests 3 parts quinoa, 3 parts sorghum flour, 2 parts potato starch, and 1 part tapioca starch.	Shelf, dry, 1 year, longer if unground and stored in grain.
Potato Starch	In mixes, superior thickening,	Good blending power	Bobs, Asian/Indian store	Shelf
Potato Flour	Thickener, flavorful,	Moistening power	Bobs, Can grind instant potato flakes	Fridge
Rice, white, sweet, wild rice Montina, brown	Baking superior, alone and in mixes, soups, salads, performs best when mixed.	Gritty, mild, good base flour in mixes	Grind myself, or Sams, or Asian Store, Waltonfeed.com or Bobsredmill.com,	Brown whole grain rices must be frozen or refrigerated. All others shelved Wild rice– indefinitely
Sorghum ** $	Alone in cookies, makes great raw dough, in mixes,	50% swap in flours, good mix w/cornstarch	Grind, or Bobs, best source is Twinvalleymills.com in Ruskin Nebraska	Shelf, in grain form 10 years cool, dry - flour refrigerate or freeze.
Soybean	Mild nutty flavor	Never alone, mixed 30% with other grains	Versatile, I grind, Bobs	Freeze, fridge
Tapioca starch (cassava root)	Favored GF Flour, in mixes, adds chewyness	Mucilagenic	Bobs Red Mill, Asian/India market, Walton Feed,	Shelf
Teff** $$	Exotics, in mixes, soups, thickener, sprouted, salads--chocolate cake!	Tiniest grain in the world, good 30% mix	Teffco.com and natural food stores.	Sealed tight, fridge, freezer