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Default Amended What restaurants, stores, mail order services carry bread made from chickpea flour?... already prepared

jmcquown wrote:
> Julia Altshuler wrote:
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>> thesak wrote:
>>>
>>>> What restaurants, stores, mail order services carry bread made from
>>>> chickpea flour already prepared?... especially around the Cambridge
>>>> 02139 area?
>>>
>>>
>>> Amazon.com
>>>
>>> http://www.amazon.com/Besan-Chick-Pe.../dp/B0000ZHZ30
>>>
>>> 3 packages, 1 lb. each. On sale for $9.99

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>>
>> That's the flour. The original poster was asking about bread made
>> from the flour. I don't know of any bakeries that make that. I have
>> experimented personally with making bread from a number of flours.
>> None were spit-them-out bad, but all were better if I used half wheat
>> flour.
>>
>>
>> (I take that back. My experiments with millet flour led to extremely
>> dry bread, almost unswallowable dry bread.)
>>
>>
>> If the original poster wants to experiment on his own, I recommend
>> The Tassajara Bread Book and The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book for
>> recipes and information.
>>
>>
>> --Lia

>
> Oh, oooops! That's what happens when I don't read a mile-long
> subject line and skip directly to the words "chickpea flour"
>
> Jill