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Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
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Do you know anywhere in the UK I can get Sorghum flour? I've tried a Google search but can only find US sources. Also do you know where we can get the garbafava flour in the UK that US GF/Wheat intolerants are raving about?
Thanks David
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by Peter
I get my sorghum flour from FUDCO, 184 Ealing Road, Wembley, MiddlesexHA0 4QD
They also distribute it to ethnic shops in the midlands.
Buy in bulk and store in deepfreeze.
Peter
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
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Do you have a telephone number for FUDCO, and will they supply mail order as we live in North Yorkshire.
My wife has just had her first real bread for over 18 months following your Gluten-Free Cookery recipes, cakes and pastry as well. We bought the book via Amazon and have already passed your deatils on to friends who suffer as well.
Many thanks,
Keith & Janet
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
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Dear Peter,
Is the sorghum flour of a particular brand ( is it Jowar ? ) - I telephoned Fudco today and the gentleman was not helpful ( ie claimed he hadnt heard of these flours but was not a clear english speaker ) - do you buy the flour in person or by mail order ? Your advice greatly appreciated.
Claire Hayes-Bradley
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by Peter
The flour is called Juwar in their ethnic community.
I have in the past had an order delivered through the post, but more recently I call on them on my infrequent vivits to London - well worth a visit.
I store the dry flour in the deep freeze until required - it should keep several years.
Peter
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Garfava flour
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I read the post here about sorghum flour and have had no trouble finding that - I now need to find Garfava flour in order to make the bread recipes that I need. Does anyone know some way of getting this product in the UK
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Garfava flour
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I read the post here about sorghum flour and have had no trouble finding that - I now need to find Garfava flour in order to make the bread recipes that I need. Does anyone know some way of getting this product in the UK
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Re: Garfava flour
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Try Authentic Foods
1850 West 169th Street, Suite B
Gardena, CA 90247
Fax: (310) 366-6938
You could write to them and see if they will ship around the world
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Re: Garfava flour
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Try Authentic Foods
1850 West 169th Street, Suite B
Gardena, CA 90247
Fax: (310) 366-6938
You could write to them and see if they will ship around the world
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
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Sorghum via health food shops; garbanzo bean/chickpea/gram flour almost anywhere; fava/broad beans obtain dried and grind at home? - mix with gram? I guess
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Re: Garfava flour
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Where can we buy Garvafa Flour in the vicinity of Vancouver,B.C.Canada.
What is Gafava flour
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Re: Garfava flour
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Where can we buy Garvafa Flour in the vicinity of Vancouver,B.C.Canada.
What is Gafava flour
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Re: Garfava flour
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Garfava flour is a combination of Fava beans-ground up and Garbanzo beans also
ground up. They are combined to make garfava flour. It is excellent when used
in combination with sorghum flour, cornstarch and tapioca flour. Bette Hagmans
book The Gluten-Free Gourmet tells how to use it and has many excellent recipies. You can buy it from Authentic Foods. Their toll free number is
1-800-806-4737. Ready made breads, donuts and bagels plus many mixes
for many gluten free items can be purchased from Kinnikinnick Foods in
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Toll free number is 1-877-503 4466 or e-mail at
www.kinnikinnick.com Everything I have purchased from there is
excellent and I rarely make bread anymore. Nancy
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Re: Garfava flour
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Garfava flour is a combination of Fava beans-ground up and Garbanzo beans also
ground up. They are combined to make garfava flour. It is excellent when used
in combination with sorghum flour, cornstarch and tapioca flour. Bette Hagmans
book The Gluten-Free Gourmet tells how to use it and has many excellent recipies. You can buy it from Authentic Foods. Their toll free number is
1-800-806-4737. Ready made breads, donuts and bagels plus many mixes
for many gluten free items can be purchased from Kinnikinnick Foods in
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Toll free number is 1-877-503 4466 or e-mail at
www.kinnikinnick.com Everything I have purchased from there is
excellent and I rarely make bread anymore. Nancy
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
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East end" - the company that does a lot of indian spices & stuff in asian shops sells Sorghum flour (juwar) - I only paid about £1.50 for a 1kg bag
They also do millet flour (Barjari/barji) at about the same cost - this is a totally different millet to the yellow balls you buy in healthfood stores & I love the taste in roti's & as porridge biscuits etc.
They also do both sorghum & millet whole - in theory you should be able to get it in any indian shop who deals with East end but not every asian shop carries it as regular stock - any where with a few indian shops/community probably has it tho
I would say in my experience you are more likely to come across Barja flour than Juwar but most places in britain you should be able to get these interesting grains
website off the packet in case its any use;
www.eastendfoods.co.uk
tel 0121 553 1999
fax 0121 525 6565
There is another type of indian millet called Ragi which I've been unable to find thus far
Happy Munching
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
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Just been playing around with the sorghum - quite nice flavour - actually I'm not sure how often I've seen it about over the years since I don't think I really knew what sorghum was even tho I had latched onto Bajra years & years back - you can make simple roti with both - perhaps the barja holds together a bit better than the juwar but might need more practise - it has a nice mild almost perfumed flavour - the bajra is more bitter
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
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Sorghum flour is readily available from Asian supermarkets and in the Asain section in Tesco as Juwar (sorghum) flour, produced by
Juwar Millers (wholeale) Ltd,
133a Harrison Road, Leicester,
LE4 6NP,
telephone 0116 224 6206
fax 0116 261 0692
e-mail jalpurmillers.co.uk
Web site www.jalpurmillers.co.uk
Hope this is helpful.
Lynne Joyce
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Re: Garfava flour
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Will Garfava flour take the place of all-purpose flour in most recipes
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Re: Garfava flour
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Will Garfava flour take the place of all-purpose flour in most recipes
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Re: Garfava flour
Posted by Peter
All bean flours can be a bit indigestible in quantity, but good for baking as part of a flour mix. Try using mixed with rice flour.
Peter
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Re: Garfava flour
Posted by Peter
All bean flours can be a bit indigestible in quantity, but good for baking as part of a flour mix. Try using mixed with rice flour.
Peter
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Re Garfava flour
Posted by Corie Diehl
I am wondering if garfava flour can be mix with any others in order to make home made noodles for chicken and noodles using a pasta machine? For use in gluten free diet?
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Re Garfava flour
Posted by Peter
You will probably need to add an egg to the mix in order for the noodles to hold together. Rice flour can be made into noodles, so I would try a mix of garfava and rice with an egg.
Peter
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Re Garfava flour
Posted by Julie Das
I am trying to find garfava, sorghum and tapioca flours to buy in the UK. Do you know where I can get them, to make gluten free breads? Thanks in advance - desperate for help.
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Re Garfava flour
Posted by Peter
In the UK, Fudco are a major supplier of these flours and foodstuffs ranging from spices to dried fruit. 184 Ealing Road, Wembley, HAO. Tel 020 8902 4820
They also supply many shops serving the ethnic communities from Africa and India / Pakistan, which use these as a staple in their cooking.
Peter
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Re Garfava flour
Posted by Christine
Where can I find Garfava flour and Sorghum flour in the area of Oshawa-Toronto Ontario??
Just got myself a new bread machine that has a cycle for baking gluten free bread!!... anxious to try it out, but can't find all these flours.. have been to a bulk barn.. but no luck there..
Appreciate any help here.
Thanks
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Re Ragi
Posted by Michael
Higher Living (in their strangely named 'ayurveda' range) have a 500g jar of ragishira which is Indian finger millet with cinnamon in it.
I use it in yoghurt and I should think it could be added to almost anything.
Delish!
The jar is lasting ages so it doesn't matter that it cost a lot of pounds.
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Re Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by vicki johnson
if you want a source of sorghum flour go to a good Indian grocer and ask for"East End "sorghum chapatti flour, but I'm not sure about Garfava flour.hope this helps
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Re Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by seetharama N Dr
I am the director of the center working on R&D, and commercialization of sorghum. What is your interest? need?
N Seetahrama
Director
NRC for Sorghum
Hyderbad, andra Pradesh, 500030
040-24015225
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Re Garfava flour
Posted by Nel Jones
My granddaughter was recently diagnosed with celiac disease. Was wanting to know where in Edmonton and or Calgary we could find sorghum, garfava bean and pea flours?
thanks in advance.
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Re Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by Vilma
I have just bough Juwar flour from Tesco (they stock it in the bigger shops).
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by Neil Murphy
Garfava is a mix of Garbanzo beans and Fava bean flour (i.e. ground beans). It is a brand name for something produced by a Canadian company and they don't ship it here. In theory you could make it by mixing chicpea flour (ie Garbanzo flour) with fava beans flour, but of course the company claims they do something to it to make the consistency everyone raves about.
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Re: Garfava flour
Posted by vona
I have garbonza bean flour and can get fava flour. What would be the mix to make garfava flour?
Or can I just use garbonza bean flour to make my bread recipe. Would it work? Thanks a million, Vona
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Re: Garfava flour
Posted by Peter
Just using a bean flour doesn't make the best bread, unless you make a very thin batter to make thin pancakes on a hot plate or pan.
Try a 50 / 50 mix with rice flour.
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by Biki
I am interested in being in touch with someone else who is also looking for unusual flours to use. I cannot have any of the gluten grains as well as no rice, corn or soy. It would be interesting to hear how you get hold of these flours and what your experience has been with using them. I am keen to experiment, any baking ideas that work?
I would love to hear from you if that was possible. Thanks
Biki.
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by Sheilesh Shah
Dear Claire Hayes-Bradley.
I am the owner of Fudco & appologise for the response that you received.
i was just browsing and not realised of this site.
we are currently in the process of our web site which will have the other Gulten Free flours and all information related.
Many thanks
sheilesh
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by sandra
my local asian supermarket in nottingham has sorgham flour . has anybody manage to get garfava flour from anywhere in england.mail order would do.
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by sandra
anyone know where to buy cornstarch or sweet rice flour
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by A.Fatm
hi
Can you please let me know how to get Garfava. I live in Canada- toronto I got the sorghum or jaur as they call it but i need to fined a suplpier for the Garfava and I want to know if they send it over see .
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by E.Schiff
There is nothing magical about garfava flour - they added the fava bean flour to reduce the "beany" taste of the Garbanzos (chickpeas). My "whole grains bread machine" cookbook (pre-gluten diet days) talks about adding all kinds of bean flours in small amounts (to wheat flour) to improve texture and moisture. Try using pure garbanzo bean or get experimental and try a variety of bean / lentil flours from your local Indian market. Cheaper than a health food store and may be fresher as I think they have a good turnover. Garbanzo=besan flour. Also try urad or toor/tuvar flour (or idly flour? One of those is used to make idly) if you can find it, maybe mixed 1:1 with the besan. Indian grocer also a good source for rice flour - once again less expensive than the health food store.
American recipes reference corn starch - which I know as cornflour - we used to use it to thicken sauces, very fine white powder. Then some American recipes reference corn flour meaning corn porridge that is as finely ground as wheat flour, one recipe suggested putting corn porridge into a clean (dedicated) coffee grinder to get it fine enough. I did find "corn flour" at my local Indian grocer.
My best gluten free bread attempt so far had garfava, tapioca, sorghum, cornstarch, potato starch in it - just measuring all that is kind of irritating. (Potato starch is a kosher staple if you can't find it elsewhere.)
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by Sukh
this all sounds very interesting. i have just found out my 7 month old son is allergic to wheat, soya and milk. i wanted to make roti/ chappati's for him so i will try sarghum flour. thankyou
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Re: Garfava flour
Posted by Paula
The best flours for Gluten Free baking should be precooked. Like the Latin American Masarepa flour(corn). Add some Masarepa to any GF All Purpose flour to improve. It absorbs water well and adds a flavor dimension. In Australia the GF AP flour is made of a variety of flours and starches and the label states that all the flours have been precooked. You really need that especially with soy beans. I do think Fava, Garbonzo, rice and sorghum are acceptable uncooked. In Tunisia (N Africa) they use sorghum a lot - wonderful cakes and breakfast porridge too. Though I've never found a packaged GF AP flour as perfect as the Australian version with it's precooked flours.
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Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by daksha shah
I bought it from VB which is an indian grocers in Kingsbury, london NW9. I bought it not knowing what to do with it so interesting recipes would be most welcome. I need to have savoury rather than sweet ones as am trying a wheat and sugar free diet.
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Re: Garfava flour
Posted by catie
I have a food mill and access to very cheap dry beans and am wondering the proportions if I wished to try milling my own garfava bean flour
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by katy goddard
Hi,
What was the recipe for the bread u talk of in your message? Where did u find it? im dying for some proper tasting bread after nearly 3 years of trying!
Thanks
Katy
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by heather
Cornstarch is the same as cornflour.
Sweet rice flour I don't know, but try glutinous rice flour from oriental supermarkets- it has pectin in it and can be added to other flours to make gluten free pastry that actually stands a chance of sticking together
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by Jackie
This may be an old post but am replying just in case someone else gets routed this way. I have just bought Juwar (sorghum) flour via internet. www.theasiancookshop.co.uk I also got cassava flour. I cannot tollerate gluten and am looking forward to using these flours. They have masses of other lovely stuff too - worth a look
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Re Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by Imelda entract
Garfava flour is a mix of Garbanzo/gram/chickpea flour and fava/broad bean flour. Proportions to use can be found in GF cookery books by the late
Bette Hagman. Her recipe for homade pasta using gram flour and tapioca
flour is really good, my son said he wouldn't have known it was gf. I'm still trying to get fava flour my local health shop searching. Believe cornstarch is
what we in UK call cornflour I've used it in US recipes which call for cornstarch
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by Amy
Don't know when you posted this so you may have your answer already, but cornstarch is just the American name for cornflour. They're exactly the same thing (I'm an American who's lived in Britain for the best part of 14 years, so I speak both "dialects"!). I'm allergic to wheat, dairy, soy, and sulphites, and have used both the Tesco and Sainsbury brands of cornflour without any reaction. As for "sweet rice" flour, I don't know. If normal rice flour doesn't work, perhaps grinding into flour some sort of short-grained rice (ie pudding rice) might work? I'd be surprised if the term didn't refer to white rice flour, though.
Good luck with your baking
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Re: Garfava flour
Posted by Jan Steele
There's a great health food store on King George Hwy, in Surrey. I can't quite remember the name... but if you're heading north on KG Hwy, turn right at 74th Avenue (i.e. towards one of those big box stores... staples?). Anyway, your immediate next right will take you into a smaller shopping complex in which there is a Starbucks, a Pub / Liquor Store, a bank, a used book store, etc. Straight in front of you is the Organic Grocer (maybe that's the name?) where you can find all of the Bette Hagman books as well as all necessary ingredients for bread-making / muffins / etc.
Good luck
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Garfava flour in Calgary and Edmonton
Posted by Jean-Marc
Hello Nel Jones:
If you are looking for Sorghum, Garfava flours in Calgary, the place to go is Planet Organic, they are at: 4625 Varsity Drive NW (at Shaganappi Trail) Calgary, AB, T3A 0Z9 403-288-6700 www.planetorganic.ca.
I have found quite a few difficult to locate items here and the staff are very helpful.
Merry Christmas
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by SM
Just thought I should let you know as a coeliac you shouldn't be eating East End products there not gluten free thanks to contamination from processing, I phoned to check. Ive been looking for Sarghum/ Jawur for a while but although I can find it I can't find specific GF brands Natco I think do but I have no idea where there stocked (and neither do they
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Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by IndianMart
Hi
Visit our website www.indianmart.co.uk and you can find lots of gluten free flours. we also do free* next day delivery throughout UK.
Look forward to serve you.
Indianmart Team
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Re: Sorghum and Garfava flour in the UK
Posted by Ann
I have seen that people have done gluten tests on some of the sorghum flour sold in the Asian shops and it does NOT pass the gluten test. Whilst the flour itself is gluten free obviously the method/manufacture process is not.
Does anyone know of sorghum sold in the UK that is actually guaranteed to be gluten free?
Just thought I should warn people if they are coeliacs and relying on using the flour from the ethnic shops