Potato flour/starch

Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:34pm

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Stephanie86

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Anyone any idea where this may be bought? I have just been laughed out of Mercadona and Consum, together with no knowledge in Iceland!

I want it for an Italian cake recipe and have no intention of travelling to a little known deli in the back streets of a village in Umbria!

Failing this, any good bakers tell me if cornstarch/ground almonds/rice flour may be substituted without noticeably impinging on the result?

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Stephanie

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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:44pm

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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:44pm

Are you following a kosher recipe?

If not I’d personally use rice flour can be found in both Mercadona and Consum. I use both rice flour and ground almonds when making pastry - rice flour is by far the cheaper option.

Lynn

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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 2:18pm

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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 2:18pm

GrahamLynn wrote on Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:44pm:
Are you following a kosher recipe?
If not I’d personally use rice flour can be found in both Mercadona and Consum. I use both rice flour and ground almonds when making pastry - rice flour is by far the cheaper option.

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Lynn

Thank you Lynn. No its not a kosher recipe, curiously, but a very old recipe apparently from Rome. Yes, I frequently add ground almonds to cakery(!), but the quantity required in this would, I imagine, make it slightly granular and very moisture retentive.

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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:00am

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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:00am

Maybe not much help to you but my wife buys hers from the Chinese food supermarkets.

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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:40am

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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:40am

Geoffro wrote on Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:00am:
Maybe not much help to you but my wife buys hers from the Chinese food supermarkets.

Thank you very much! Unfortunately there is a dearth of these in rural spain… We have huge household Chinese stores but have not found food supplies. Although there may be in Denia, if anyone happens to know?

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Stephanie