As a wheat substitute we may use it cooked whole or ground into
a flour. The rice flour may be mixed with other cereals in making
bread and cakes. The rice polish, which is a by-product secured by
rubbing off with brushes the outside coating of the brown rice, is
much cheaper. It has been sold chiefly for stock-feed, but it has
possibilities as a flour substitute.
The rice-growers of the South are doing their best to supply the
country with rice in quantity and to make known the possibilities
of this cereal. The rice flour supply, though not large now, will
doubtless be much increased by next year. One Louisiana mill, for
example, is increasing its output from 150 to 1,200 barrels a day.
_Other Cereal Substitutes_. Besides the substitutes which are common
all over the country, there are products produced in too small amounts
to make them universal substitutes, such as buckwheat, cottonseed
meal, and peanut flour, any of which can be used with other flours for
baking. The Southwest produces both flour and meal from milo, kaffir,
and feterita.
Flours are made from the Irish and sweet potato, from tapioca, from
soy beans, and bananas, but they are manufactured in such small
amounts that they do not take the place of wheat to any great extent.
Potato flour comes nearest to doing this. It has always been used
to some extent in Europe and it is being widely used in Germany now.
Potato itself can be used instead of wheat.
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