Question about flour

[goldie]

I am so ready for fall. My favorite time of year. For some reason it is sentimental to me. It is also a time when I like to bake. Cool days, warm food, warm drinks, long walks. Oh how I love it. My husband is diabetic so I already have some experience. in making some good healthy sf recipes. But there is one I am not sure about. It is an oatmeal cookie recipe that I altered so that I thought would be diabetic friendly. But now that I am on the beach It doesn't seem as healthy as I thought. I don't have the exact ingredients in front of me right now. But it was the basic OM cookie recipe. I used sucralose instead of sugar, Old fashioned oats...(wanting to try steel cut oats?) (Instead of using brown sugar I use extra spices, cinnamon, cloves etc.) It is the flour that I am not sure about? I always used unbleached all purpose flour. Is this a bad thing I really don't think ww flour would be that good in the recipe. Any ideas

[RedRox]

you could try ww pastry flour or there is a ww "white" flour available from several millers (king arthur perhaps being the most carried brand) that uses a different strain of wheat that when ground is lighter in color and flavor. You are correct that an all purpose flour would not be SB friendly, either bleached or unbleached. Also I'd probably stay with the rolled oats. I don't think the steel cut would work very well unless you precooked them partially or something like that.

[goldie]

You are always so helpful. Just wondering where I might be able to find those flours? Grocery store or health food store? Also thanks for the tip about the steel cut oats, I have never tried them. I might just try them for breakfast sometime.

[JohnC]

Goldie, I am a diabetic and I make lots of recipes with whole wheat flours. I use Stoned Ground WW Pastry flour for cookies and cakes. I use regular WW Flour for pizza. The King Arthur "White" whole wheat flour is a good choice. Try your recipes using the WW flours, you might be surprised how good they turn out.

[jenniferlynne76]

I agree with RedRox about the oatmeal. Steel cut will not work for an oatmeal cookie recipe. And I have made them before with whole wheat flour; they tasted great! Honestly, there wasn't even much of a noticable difference. You should be able to find whole wheat flour in any health food store if your local grocery store doesn't carry it for some reason (though most do, nowadays). Good luck and let us know how they turn out!