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Help Finding Ingredients

  • 04-11-2008 2:36pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 968 ✭✭✭


    I'm planning on spending the weekend baking \o/ but first need to find mace and cake flour/soft wheat flour. They don't seem to be available on-line from Tesco and I don't recall seeing them before (then again I wasn't looking) so I was wondering where I might get them. I'm in Limerick so I wont be able to try any specialist stores in Dublin...


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭noby


    Mace should be in the spice section of any half decent supermarket.
    I've heard of substituting cake flour with plain flour or plain flour + cornstarch. In fact a quick google reveals this, although I've never tried it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,412 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    I would have thought that soft flour is just regular plain or cream flour as opposed to strong bread flour.
    No?

    As said, mace shouldn't be hard to find.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭Magic Monkey


    Try an Asian shop in your area for both of those ingredients, they should have them. Look for mace in with the indian spices. Tesco have a range of speciality ingredients such as lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, boquet garnis, etc - the mace may be in with them too. For substitution: use nutmeg instead of the mace, for soft flour use plain/cream flour as suggested, and for cake flour what nody suggested works (cake flour has a lower gluten % than plain flour and is specially treated to absorb more moisture.) What is the recipe?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 342 ✭✭antoniosicily


    mace = any asian shop
    cake flour = oldsum's cream is good to make cakes


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