Baking With Wholemeal

forgottendreams

Hello,

I'll confess, I'm not much of a baker - but I would love to make my own scones, muffins, oaty biscuits using wholemeal flour.

I've heard the wholemeal flour can leave your baking a little "stodgy" rather than the fluffy texture you get with white flour.

Does anyone use solely wholemeal flour in their baking? Would you be willing to share a couple of your tweaked recipies for me to give a try.

I'd love to spend a Sunday baking batches of scones and muffins to freeze for a healthy alternative breakfast/lunch.

There's loads of lovely recipies on the Jan Grocery Challange - but my only concern is can I switch white to wholemeal without affecting the end results?

Big_Graeme

Add some vitamin C to your mix, it lifts wholemeal doughs.
Half a 500mg tablet will do for the average 400g loaf.

adelight

Big_Graeme wrote: »

Add some vitamin C to your mix, it lifts wholemeal doughs.
Half a 500mg tablet will do for the average 400g loaf.

I'd never heard of this before but google reckons it's quite common. I'll definitely give it a go with some L-ascorbic acid.

I just use a mix of wholemeal and white, 3:1 is about the most I can use before it gets too dense.

jackyann

I use a mix as well, and vary the mix to whatever I am cooking. Remember that wholdemeal flour absorbs fluid differently, so be careful about adding it and make sure you get the right consistency for whatever you are making.

Turkishdreamer

There are some great baking recipes on the BBC Good Food Website which use wholemeal flour.

Also the Hairy Bikers have great wholemeal flour recipes,

I have to say that I do not have great success using 100% wholemeal flour and tend to use a 2/1 mix.

Jnelhams

You could add a little Bicarb of Soda to aid Bread use, but a little sugar and cinnamon added to the flour make sweet pastry a lot nicer, and a little cheese and pepper for Savory Pastry.

katz03

I always use wholemeal flour for rock cakes and they are yummy - used white flour when i ran out of wholemeal and they weren't as nice!!

forgottendreams

Thanks so much for all your ideas - I'll have a nosey on the BBC site, and the hairy biker site

Katz03 - Its been sooo long since i had rock cakes, infact i think it was when I was in first year at school, they sound fab, would you mind sharing the quantities you use?

Jnelhams - Your suggestions sound fab - a little pinch of sugar and cinnamon sounds like it would compliment the baking nicely.

Thanks everyone - im thinking i should try a blend to give me every chance of succesful baking