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 Posted: Sun, Mar 07 2010, 7:22 pm Post subject: FLOUR VS POTATO STARCH |
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| This might be a silly question. If a recipe calls for flour can I simply substitute potato starch for it?
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| Posted: Sun, Mar 07 2010, 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| No. Potato starch is like corn starch.
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| Posted: Sun, Mar 07 2010, 9:48 pm Post subject: re: FLOUR VS POTATO STARCH |
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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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| Posted: Sun, Mar 07 2010, 9:52 pm Post subject: Re: FLOUR VS POTATO STARCH |
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| 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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| Posted: Sun, Mar 07 2010, 10:14 pm Post subject: re: FLOUR VS POTATO STARCH |
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| Thanks everyone for your replies.
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| Posted: Wed, Mar 24 2010, 6:06 am Post subject: re: FLOUR VS POTATO STARCH |
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| 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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| Posted: Fri, Mar 26 2010, 12:22 pm Post subject: re: FLOUR VS POTATO STARCH |
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| what about matza meal? how does that work vs the potato starch?
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| Posted: Fri, Mar 26 2010, 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| 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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