Read You Flour Bags!

[Kitchen Witch]

If you are a flour user like I am - you may have noticed a difference in some of the brands of flour.

One particular brand that I liked changed. My bread dough was rubbery to the touch, cakes were very crumbly, there was a "tinge" to everything and there was an after-taste.

Now with me using flour for over 50 years - I knew it was not me.

I checked my flour bag - ingredients were "normal" but close to the bottom of the bag and stuck in the crease of the bag was a warning in small letters - CONTAINS WHEAT AND SOY.

Everyone knows that flour is made from wheat.

But what's this with the soy??

I thought I had the stomach flu - it was the soy in the flour.



Years ago the only decisions when buying flour were - bleached, unbleached, self-rising, all purpose or bread flour. Now we are expected to read the microscopic fine print in the creases at the bottom of the bag for the word SOY!

I contacted the company about it and told them that the word SOY should be in large letters right on the front of the bag.

Cripe - haven't we got enough dang labels to read??? What are we supposed to do - plan a whole day just for grocery shopping so we can read every dang-blasted label???

Sorry - I haven't the time or the patience - grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

(just venting)

[enusuappy]

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Looking forward to sharing ideas with everybody! And everyone is so nice (even though you dont even know me yet). It's a lot of fun reading about where everyone is at. I look forward to getting to know everyone as we exchange messages on this board.

I'm pretty happy to be here!

[Kitchen Witch]

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KW

[johnstevens]


Great page. Good stuff.