Flour: a comprehensive guide

Description

In this timely new book Christine McFadden explores the way in which flour has been a staple part of our diet, and provides a comprehensive look at the alternatives to traditional wheat flour. With an increasing and at times bewildering choice of flours available online and in shops, this book follows a usable A-Z format, providing a CV of sorts for each flour (including plant source, gluten content, protein content, flavour profile and how best to use). Each of the flours featured is accompanied by suggested recipes from Christine's kitchen, and these recipes demonstrate the often underestimated ways in which flour is used. Flours range from cassava and quinoa to cricket flour and coffee flour, with delicious recipes such as cheddar and chilli cornbread (using amaranth flour), salted chocolate tart with buckwheat and walnut pastry, spicy onion pancakes (using moong dal) and spring lamb pot pies (with tradition plain wheat flour). Recipes are accompanied by beautiful photography to bring the dishes to life.

Christine McFadden is the author of 17 cookbooks and has been nominated for a range of international cookbook awards, including the Guild of Food Writers Food Book of the Year. In 2010 she set up a successful cookery school, The Dorset Foodie, where she regularly holds classes on pie and pastry making along with lessons on baking with gluten-free flours. As a qualified home economist, Christine has a fundamental understanding of the physics and chemistry of flour, dietetics and nutrition, making her perfectly placed to author this definitive work on flour. @TheDorsetFoodie