What is the weight of a barrel of flour? Of an ordinary sack of flour?
What is the present price per sack of baker's and of high-grade patent flour?
How many cupfuls in a pound of flour?
In what quantity are whole wheat flour and graham flour usually purchased for home use? What is the price per pound of each?
LESSON CXXI
COMPARISON OF WHEAT AND OTHER GRAINS—MUFFINS
SUBSTITUTING OTHER CEREALS FOR WHEAT FLOUR.—A resourceful worker in foods is able to follow a standard recipe and make such substitutions as her available materials permit. Such ability is most desirable. It enables one to work more independently, to produce more varied foods, and to utilize all materials, allowing none to waste.
During the wheat shortage of the World War, many valuable investigations were made regarding the substitution of other grains for wheat flour. It was found that the substitution should be based upon the relative weights of wheat flour and other flours or meals rather than upon their relative measures.
By comparing the weight of 1 cupful of wheat pastry flour with the same quantity of its substitutes, the following data have been obtained.
For 1 cupful of wheat flour substitute: