Grinding your own flour doesn’t just mean grinding wheat berries- grains like rice and oats can be ground at home too. This is great news if you’ve gone gluten free. So many gluten free products are expensive and or full of processed ingredients I’d never bake with myself. Baking my own at home means I have control over exactly what goes in, I save us quite a bit of money and avoid all the excess packaging.
Rice flour is a common ingredient in gluten free baking. Our local stores carry a few gluten free flours (all tiny overpriced packages) and a growing section of processed goods. Last time I went there was no rice flour to be found so I can’t give a price comparison but I did go home and get my grain mill out (and took it apart and gave it several very through washings).
In goes the rice. This is just white rice but type doesn’t matter you can grind brown rice or jasmine etc.
The results: A very fine rice flour. This stuff is quite dusty!
And it bakes up nicely too. We made some Vanilla Almond Sugar Cookies – a recipe off the back of a package coconut flour from Bob’s Red Mill. I store the rest of the rice flour in a lidded container at room temp.
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Editing: I just want to add a link to this great post from The Frugal Farm Wife. Mix up your own gf flour mix using white rice, brown rice and cornstarch- and she’s worked out the savings.
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hearth and soul, fat tuesday,real food wednesday,gluten free wednesday,frugal days sustainable ways
Thank you for sharing this wonderful frugal, allergy friendly tip with us at the Hearth and Soul hop. I didn’t realise it was so straight-forward to make your own rice flour, or that you could use any kind of rice!
I find so many things are a lot less complicated than I think they are!
This is a great help. Rice flour in the store is SO expensive. Have a nice week.
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Hi there. The current Food on Friday is all about Rice and other grains! So it would be great if you linked this in. This is the link . Wishing you a very happy New Year!
thank you for linking this in to Food on Friday. We are now getting quite a collection of rice/grain dishes together. Do stop by some of the other links to check them out!
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