PAT - re seitan (Was - Economic Crisis Bitten Your Food Budget?)

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Hi Pat,

 

Ooooh yes please.  I'd love to have the seitan links.  Many thanks.  I have

often thought about making my own seitan but I have been a bit put off by the

requirement for using high gluten flour or, as you often see in UK recipes,

flour of x%.  Those descriptions are not used in Holland and I really don't know

what they mean or what type of flour to buy.  I must admit that when I see UK

recipes using flour of a particular % (for instance 81%) I'm not even sure what

the % refers to.

 

Do the sites also give instructions for the different styles of seitan you

mentioned.

 

Home baking isn't really very popular in Holland and supermarkets carry only a

tiny range of flour and baking products.  The standard range is plain and self

raising flour (both white) with the occasional supermarket carrying plain

wholemeal flour.  I have never seen self-raising wholemeal flour in a Dutch

supermarket. There is never any additional information such as strength/% on the

packets. 

 

You can also buy packets of bread machine mix - white, multigrain and

wholemeal.  I assume these mixes wouldn't be suitable for seitan as they have

yeast in them.  Anything more 'exotic' than these flours would involve a trip to

a health food shop or a flour mill but I still don't know what sort of flour to

look for or ask for.  I suspect that explaining my needs would fall on deaf ears

as I have never heard of anyone here making their own seitan.  I'd love to be

able to make it though.  Any hints, tips or advice would be gratefully received.

 

Even cake mixes (panic not, I never buy them!) in supermarkets are restricted to

two or three varieties.  Everyone here seems to have the favourite family apple

tart recipe but that tends to be the extent of baking for many people so the

range of products available is minimal.

 

As for the recipes, I'll see what I can do about making the

'recipes' comprehensible but it varies a lot depending on the mood I'm in. 

Sometimes I use oatmeal as the base ingredient, sometimes cooked rice,

lentils or it could be or grated raw or mashed potatoes. I have also used mashed

sweet potatoes and carrots on occasions.  I also make batter based fritters

sometimes - e.g. corn fritters.  I will try to put some ideas in writing and

post them - maybe over the weekend.

 

Hugs from Marie

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Re: RE - Economic Crisis Bitten Your Food Budget?

 

Thursday, 5 March, 2009, 12:04 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marie, as a change from your homemade veggie burgers (wanna share that

recipe?????) , have you tried making your own seitan?

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