Wholesome fun: how wholemeal flour can add to your baking: Wholemeal flour can put fun, flavour and texture into your baking as well as adding extra fibre to your diet. Try these very different recipes – one a rich, spiced sweet potato cake with cream cheese icing, the other for savoury, seeded breakfast muffins Wholesome” is an adjective I shy away from, especially when baking. Where I seek pleasure and excess, “wholesome” promises moderation and salutary benefit. I’m haunted by visions of “healthy” cakes with all the flavour and interest of a piece of cardboard, or loaves as dense as lead weights. And so for a long time I avoided wholesome baking and anything that threatened to come close to it – wholemeal and wholegrain baking were off the cards. But wholemeal flour needn’t mean wholesome virtue: fold it into a cake batter, then cloak with rich cream-cheese icing; marry its nutty depth to soft brown sugar; add to bread for a rounder, subtler taste. Unlike refined white flours, wholemeal contains, as the name suggests, the whole grain – bran, germ and endosperm – leaving wholemeal higher in fibre, vitamins, flavour and complexity than white flour. Continue reading... #food #recipes #nomr
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 20:07:23 +0000
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