Sorghum Flour?

[SunTea]

I've got  package of sorghum flour in the freezer, and I don't know what to do with it.  I have Bette Hagman's The Gluten Free Gourmet (revised 2000) and the The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Fast and Healthy, and the library is getting me an interlibrary loan on her book about cooking with the new flours.  These two books and the Internet have been my guide in these last few weeks of learning to cook gluten free.  According to Bette Hagman, sorghum flour is supposed to be mixed with with garfava flour, corn and tapioca starches, and as a general rule, it's not used alone in recipes.

The local health food store doesn't carry garfava bean flour, and I'm trying to avoid mailing ordering food.  Any ideas about what I can do with sorghum flour?  I really need to start learning to bake with something else besides rice flour mix and rotate schedule my foods including flours.  Thanks.

Sheila

[wecare178]

Hi -    I'm fairly new at this game, but I've never heard of "garfava" flour.   I'm guessing that what you're talking about is a mixture of Garbanzo Bean Flour and Fava flour.  (I dont' have a clue about what Fava flour is or where it comes from).   I've seen Garbanzo in my local health food stores, but not Fava - - only way I know to get it is online.   Try Bob's Red Mill.

       Dick

[CarolM]

Fava flour comes from the fava bean.   

CarolM

[sheltiemom]

Try the recipe index at Bob's Red Mill website. You type or cue in the type of recipes, for example gluten free, then choose a product, sorghum flour. It will bring up all the choices  and you select which ones you want to take a closer look at. I have used Carol Fenster's flour mix from her book, Gluten Free 101. It is part sorghum flour and I subbed it into my banana bread recipe. I could barely tell the difference.

[tksmom]

I went to Whole Foods Market today and saw Bob's Red Mill Garbanzo/Fava Bean flour.

Maybe you can find it online too. 

[SunTea]

I baked a cake the other day using only sorghum flour.  I can see why you'd mix it with other flours.  I liked the cake, but it was a little heartburn heavy.  Before you bake it, the texture reminds you of slippery clay that you'd scoop off the bottom of the bay.

Sheila

[SunTea]

Using "Carol Fenster" to search info was helpful.  I found this site for sorghum flour mixes:  http://www.savorypalate.com/Carols_Flour_Blend.aspx

I think I got this one from www.twinvalleymills.com
sorghum mix:  blend is 2 cups sorghum, 2/3 cup arrow root, 1/3 cup tapioca)

Sheila

[sheltiemom]

This evening I also noticed that the CSA website, www.csaceliac.org has an article about sorghum flour and some recipes to use it.