Can i make pastry with this???!
Answers: can i make pie crust with rice flour? i want to make a apple pie type thing but i can't use regular flour. can i substitute with this? do i need to add something else like baking powder?
The thing about wheat flour is that it flakes in a way no other flour can. It’s why there are whole rafts of interesting pastries built around wheat flour. And any pastry made with another kind of flour will not just feel different, but will taste different. There is no getting around that. Are you trying to make something for your family or for guests?
Basically, when trying to make something for people with allergies, you want to go for good taste, not necessarily trying to copy a recipe exactly from one form to another. Sometimes copying and modifying works, sometimes the taste, or feel, is just too different.
So, if your aim is to make an apple pastry, consider making an apple crisp. (Recipe below.) It still has apples, is a lovely dessert, and you can use some other flour without changing the taste very much. (This is especially good if you have guests who you want to have enjoy your work and you don’t want to put them off with a weird taste [in this case, rice flour].) Or go a whole different route and use a nut based bottom on your pastry, which would be good and would not try to pretend to be pastry crust. (Recipe below.)
Apple Crisp
4-5 peeled, cored and sliced apples.
(1-2 tablespoon brown sugar, optional, depending on the tartness of your apples)
1 tablespoon lemon
Mix together and put in a pie pan or glass baking dish. Sprinkle with:
Crisp topping
? cup brown sugar
? cup flour (wheat, flour, rye, oat–almost anything, even rolled oats)
1/4 cup cool, diced butter
(1/4 cup chopped nuts, optional)
(? tsp cinnamon, optional)
Use a pastry cutter to blend this together, or use your mixer, or rub ingredients together with your cool hands. It should be coarse looking, but the butter blended in.
Sprinkle the topping on the apples. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 25-35 minutes. Let cool. Eat warm or at room temperature.
Apple Tart
Crust
1 ? cups ground almonds (buy or make your own)(also called almond meal)
3 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoon melted butter.
Mix and then press into a tart or pie pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes.
Apples
3-4 peeled, cored and sliced apples.
3-4 tablespoons brown or white sugar
1 tablespoon lemon
pinch of salt
Mix in a pot and cook on top of stove for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until apples are cooked but still retain shape. Spoon onto crust.
For variety, add 1/4 tsp cinnamon, 1/8 tsp all pice, and ? cup raisins. Proceed cooking as above.
It probably won't be as good, or the same texture, but you coudl use rice flour.
And you shouldn't need baking powder in an apple pie recipe, so you're good there.
I truly think that you can, however I am not sure if you would have to add anything to the dough or not.
I just looked and found that you should substitute all purpose flour with 4 parts rice flour and 1 part arrowroot - to keep the baked goods from becoming crumbly.
1 cup rice flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/3 cup butter
3 tablespoons cold water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Combine rice flour, sugar, salt and baking powder.
Cut in shortening until mixture is crumbly.
Combine water and vanilla.
Stir into flour mixture just until moistened.
Form dough into ball and rol between two sheets of silicone paper to about 1/8 inch thickness.
Remove top paper.
Turn into pie plate.
Remove remaining paper.
Carefuly fit into pie plate.
For filled pies, bake crust at 375 degrees for 5 minutes.
Then fill and bake pie according to recipe.
For baked pie shell, line with silicon paper and sprinkle with dried beans, bake at 425 degrees for 12 minutes.
Remove foil and beans.
Bake 5 minutes longer or until lightly browned.