bean flour

[Guest guest]

To my knowledge, DW no longer sells bean flour and the products that

are sold there are SCD compliant.

I believe the process of making your own bean flour consists of

soaking the beans according to BTVC, then cooking them according to

BTVC, then putting the cooked beans in a dehydrator and drying them

out until you can turn them into a powder/flour.

All that said, beans are not recommended until well into the diet

after the intestinal tract is completely healed and I believe, even

then Elaine cautions on using too much bean flour because the starch

is so concentrated in the bean flour.

So, if you were looking into the idea of bean flour to use a staple

for your son on the SCD, it's not used that way.

Jody

mom to -5.1 and -7.4

[Guest guest]

From Elaine on the topic of bean flour:

From: " Elaine Gottschall "

Date: Sun Jan 18, 2004 10:51:25 AM US/Eastern

We cannot use bean flour at all - don't even go there to making their own.

I have stated in my book and I believe on my website that soaking,

boiling, draining and mashing the beans can be used but not as a

flour. Please, please, no bean flour - not enough water and the

starch is too concentrated.

[Guest guest]

Wow! Thanks for the information. This must be really, really, new

because even breaktheviciouscycle.com doesn't say to avoid bean flour

completely. My copy of BTVC is not that old. I think I bought it

last June. It mentions using bean flour. I went ahead and bought the

book SCD With Taste and Tradition because it is recommended over and

over as having non-dairy recipes. It has bean flour in quite a few of

the recipes.

I suppose this is in the works already, but I think it would be

helpful if there was a caution in the welcome messages that only the

absolute latest edition of BTVC (once it comes out) is valid. And

maybe there could be a change in the home page of the list where the

big picture of BTVC is that only the latest version should be followed

and why--just a thought so others don't go hunting for how to make

legal bean flour.

> From Elaine on the topic of bean flour:

>

>

> From: " Elaine Gottschall "

> Date: Sun Jan 18, 2004 10:51:25 AM US/Eastern

>

> We cannot use bean flour at all - don't even go there to making

their own.

> I have stated in my book and I believe on my website that soaking,

> boiling, draining and mashing the beans can be used but not as a

> flour. Please, please, no bean flour - not enough water and the

> starch is too concentrated.

[Guest guest]

,

I have an older copy of BTVC and I don't recall bean flour (dry, like

regular flour) being mentioned as something to use on the diet. I

believe the mashed cooked beans idea is mentioned, but not actual dry,

powdery bean flour.

The mashed cooked beans are allowed, if the gut is healed enough to

tolerate them.

Jody

mom to -5.1 and -7.4

[Guest guest]

The Lord Giveth. The Lord taketh Away :-) or as my friend says when her puppy

gets into junk, " Not good for you! "

> Wow!  Thanks for the information.  This must be really, really, new

> because even breaktheviciouscycle.com doesn't say to avoid bean flour

> completely.  My copy of BTVC is not that old.  I think I bought it

> last June.  It mentions using bean flour. I went ahead and bought the

> book SCD With Taste and Tradition because it is recommended over and

> over as having non-dairy recipes.  It has bean flour in quite a few of

> the recipes.   

>

Carol F.

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Toronto , Celiac SCD 2 years

There is no substitute for the right food!