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Old 11-05-2006, 07:08 PM
Electra Electra is offline
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You can grind your own flours, you need to research the best type of mill for rice. I know mine can not do Tapioca pearls due to their hardness. I think you are probably pretty safe in purchasing things like Tapioca Starch. Rice flour in bulk is not too expensive. www.frankferd.com has rice flour in 2lb and 5lb bags and up. I haven't ground much myself, I thought it would be cost effective, but it isn't. I also do not use rice flour as a staple in my baking as it reeks havoc on a person's glycemic index, especially my son.

I would also suggest going to the library and reading a Bette Hagman cook book. Most of her early recipes were not with any of the ingredients you listed. She does do a bean flour mix, but her staple has always been a rice based mix.

Read whatever GF cookbooks your library has, it was a world of help to me and I am a serious baker and know my way around the kitchen -- I just needed some insight to the GF flours and how they work.
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