British Buckwheat Flour, Light, Organic
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
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Our light buckwheat flour is milled from whole buckwheat groats with the hulls sieved out. It's ideal for traditional Brittany crêpes or galettes, buckwheat pancakes served with sweet or savoury fillings.
The organic British buckwheat used to produce this flour is grown on three organic farms in Northumberland. The flour is milled for us by Maple Farm at Kelsale in Suffolk.
Recipes for Buckwheat Flour
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Buckwheat Flour has a distinctive nutty flavour and is traditionally used to make Breton pancakes.
Cooking instructions
Use alone, or mix with other flours to make pancakes, waffles, cakes, pastries and biscuits.
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Ingredients
Buckwheat
Allergy information
May contain gluten (milled where gluten containing cereals are handled)
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Typical values Per 100g Energy 1,422kJ (335kcal) Fat 2.9g of which saturates 0.6g Carbohydrate 65.4g of which sugars 1.4g Fibre 6.4g Protein 11.9g Salt Trace -
Buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum, is a member of the rhubarb family. Known in France as sarrasin, it's also called black wheat on account of its dark outer husk. Unlike wheat, buckwheat is not a member of the grass family and is therefore, like quinoa, a pseudocereal rather than true cereal.
- Suitable for vegans and vegetarians
- No artificial ingredients
- GM free
- Recyclable paper packaging
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