White/Wholeweat flour exchange experiment

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taka wrote: »

I have a really old copy (early 80's I think - I got it in a charity shop) of the Cranks recipe book and loads of their recipies used wholemeal flour (where necessary). Its a really old fasioned type cookbook but I use it regularly - they do have a more recent version of it but I don't know if it is the same. They have a couple of their recipes on their website too - you could try this for a sponge cake or this for a fruit cake. We had the w/m sponge decorated with fresh cream and fruit for our birthdays growing up... yummy!

Gosh, I remember the Cranks recipe book. Someone I knew had it and bought me a copy. I was young and disorganised and managed to lose it somewhere. It's great to see some of their recipes. Thanks for posting the link. The fruity cake looks a bit of a palaver as I tend to use recipes with fewer ingredients if I can. The sponge definitely looks like something I'd like to do.

Murrell

ceridwen wrote: »

Found the flours.

The one I used to use is:
Doves Farm Organic Strong Wholemeal Flour - £1.39 from Sainsburys (its there on the Sainsburys site - if you look up www.mysupermarket.co.uk website)

The one I now use (as I wanted it to be stoneground as well) is - Shipton Mill Wholewheat Flour. You can see this by googling for "Shipton Mill wholewheat flour" and it should bring up the webpage for this on the www.goodnessdirect.co.uk website (though I am able to buy this flour in a local shop myself). Its £3.31 for 2.5 kg. (which I know is going to be too expensive for a lot - I decided to pay the premium personally - as I'm now swopping from a healthy diet to the healthiest-I-can-possibly-get diet personally). But - I do know there were many years in my life where I couldnt have found enough money to buy this level of product.....

Having checked out the www.mysupermarket.com website again - the cheapest flour I found of the type I mean is the Sainsburys Stoneground Wholemeal Bread Flour - a 1.5kg bag is 95p (perfectly acceptable - its just me buying everything organic as to why I dont buy this one).

Hi Ceridwen,

Thanks for the info. I also like to buy wholemeal and organic where possible, not that you would know it from any of my posts and as my local shops (morrisons and tesco express) are rubbish and I sometimes end up buying white non organic if I want to make something for a recipe challenge. As the things I make are not often for me though, I don't worry too much!
I went to Morrisons this morning and they didn't have any organic wholemeal, only organic pasta flour and seeded brown flour. They did have non organic wholemeal, but as I want to try your recipe for us, I will go into town later and see if one of the healthfood stores have any. Shame really, as I wanted to leave it to prove in the hot conservatory, while I went into town. Still another day when I get some.
Thanks
Sandra

ceridwen

taka wrote: »

I have a really old copy (early 80's I think - I got it in a charity shop) of the Cranks recipe book and loads of their recipies used wholemeal flour (where necessary). Its a really old fasioned type cookbook but I use it regularly - they do have a more recent version of it but I don't know if it is the same. They have a couple of their recipes on their website too - you could try this for a sponge cake or this for a fruit cake. We had the w/m sponge decorated with fresh cream and fruit for our birthdays growing up... yummy!

Yep - I've just bought that book - all these years later:o. Its just very basic level healthy food and is the sort of stuff I started out eating as an adult at about that time. I should really have bought a copy much sooner - as it covers a lot of healthy eating bases. I've not had chance to start working my way through many of the recipes yet - as I've only had it a few weeks and I've got a huge long list of recipes waiting for me to try them out already...:)

Cranks are very into wholemeal flour every time:)