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dochesed
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Sun, Mar 07 2010, 6:22 pm
This might be a silly question. If a recipe calls for flour can I simply substitute potato starch for it?
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chocolate moose
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Sun, Mar 07 2010, 8:45 pm
No. Potato starch is like corn starch.
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ra_mom
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Sun, Mar 07 2010, 8:48 pm
CM is right. You cannot just substitute potato starch for flour.
Btw, potato starch is actually thicker than corn starch. If a recipe calls for 1 Tbsp of cornstarch, you should actually only use about 1 tsp of potato starch as a substitute.
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WriterMom
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Sun, Mar 07 2010, 8:52 pm
dochesed wrote: | This might be a silly question. If a recipe calls for flour can I simply substitute potato starch for it? |
Wheat flour has gluten, which is what makes bread and cake stretchy and fluffy. If the recipe is for something like that, then you can't substitute. If it's to thicken a sauce, or in a breading, or in a souffle, or anything else where it's not the gluten that you want, then that's usually ok. epicurious.com has some good info about substitutions.
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dochesed
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Sun, Mar 07 2010, 9:14 pm
Thanks everyone for your replies.
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MommySA
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Wed, Mar 24 2010, 6:06 am
apparently you can add 5/8 cup of Potato FLOUR for every cup of wheat flour - I looked it up on the internet today so haven't tried it yet.
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PinkandYellow
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Fri, Mar 26 2010, 12:22 pm
what about matza meal? how does that work vs the potato starch?
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chocolate moose
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Fri, Mar 26 2010, 2:18 pm
I don't see how it pays to sub for the flour. we have many good pesach difke recipes posted here; stick with something you know that will work
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