Flour Mixes

As well as buying big bags of flour from asian supermarkets, where I get my rice flour, potato flour, tapioca flour and other flours, as you can get them in large weights for good prices there...


I'm also a big fan of Dove's Farm Gluten Free Plain flour mix. It works well in everything I've baked to date, and is handy and sells at a decent price too. You can get it in most supermarkets, like Tesco and Superquinn, and you can find it in health shops too, though probably more expensive in there. Recently I bought their Rice flour, which wasn't expensive and was very good quality. I believe you can order their flours online.


There are a lot of other flour mixes in shops which I haven't tried yet, as a lot of them are quite expensive. Dove's Farm seems to be at the best price. So, they get a thumbs up from me.

Gluten Free Flours

My favourite combination of gluten free flours is rice flour, potato flour and tapioca flour. They don't have too strong or offensive a flavour and they work well together, particularly for baking cakes and sweet things.

Cornflour and maize flour are good ones too, and not too strong in flovour. Using cornflour and soya flour with rice flour work well in baking bread, along with one of my favourite ingredients Psyllium Husk powder

I haven't found any millet flour in my searches here in Dublin, but am interested in trying it, along with sorghum flour. Perhaps I will have to find them online.

Quinoa flour and Buckwheat flour will add their own distinctive flavours, it all depends on what you want. I don't use these flours very much, but don't let that stop you.

Everyone is different and has different tastes. I can only tell you what I like to use. I think you really need to experiment with the different flours and find what you like and what works for you. Just have fun with it!