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Bread.

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Bread, a product made from flour. Flour a product made from a grain and the most used grain for making flour is wheat.

So the question is, Rice is the most popular grain grown in Asia and small amounts are processed into rice flour, so why is bread made in Asia (Cambodia ) not made from rice flour.?

Am I looking on the wrong shelf in the wrong shops.
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Bread as you know it was introduced by Le French.

Asians do use rice flour for making various desserts/sweets.
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Tootsfriend wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 5:21 pm Bread, a product made from flour. Flour a product made from a grain and the most used grain for making flour is wheat.

So the question is, Rice is the most popular grain grown in Asia and small amounts are processed into rice flour, so why is bread made in Asia (Cambodia ) not made from rice flour.?

Am I looking on the wrong shelf in the wrong shops.
Rice flour has no gluten...
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Local baguettes are made from a rice/wheat flour mix.
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Tootsfriend wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 5:21 pm Bread, a product made from flour. Flour a product made from a grain and the most used grain for making flour is wheat.

So the question is, Rice is the most popular grain grown in Asia and small amounts are processed into rice flour, so why is bread made in Asia (Cambodia ) not made from rice flour.?

Am I looking on the wrong shelf in the wrong shops.
There's quite a lot of bread made here with rice flour, it's very dry, goes hard easily and tastes sweet; typically found in low end local joints aimed at the lower end of the western market - it's distinguishable because when toasted it doesn't go brown and has very poor texture
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The bread from Bayon bakery is very popular, but it goes hard as rock really quickly. Same as many other similar local bakeries. They are all for the local market. The environment here isn't particularly good for a lot of breads and pastries.
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Re: Bread.

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Rice noodles are noodles made from rice. The principal ingredients are rice flour and water.

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Edible rice paper is used for making fresh summer rolls (salad rolls) or fried spring rolls in Vietnamese cuisine, where the rice paper is called bánh tráng or bánh đa nem. Ingredients of the food rice paper include white rice flour, tapioca flour, salt, and water. The tapioca powder makes the rice paper glutinous and smooth.
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Re: Bread.

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Rice has no gluten. Bread needs gluten for elasticity to rise.
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There are traditional khmer bread recipes. However, none of them are baked. But they are perfect for soaking up gravy.

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The cheap half baguette available around for "pain-paté" and local "kebabs" do the job just fine, not amazing (from a frog standpoint) but fairly appreciable, as the other "bread" alternatives have usually very little crust, and no proper texture inside.

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