Teff: The Global Flour Game Created by Ruth Paget
Use:
Droughts or floods may affect the availability of the flour you usually cook with. Knowing about other flours helps choose alternatives that may appear on supermarket shelves or what blends of flours might be like nutritionally.
Background:
I named this game after teff flour from Ethiopia and Eritrea in Africa. I used a reference book by British author Christine McFadden called Flour: A Comprehensive Guide to test player’s knowledge of 45 flours listed in the book.
On the front of an index card, write the name of the flour.
On the back of the index card, note the following information to test yourself on:
1-plant source (cricket flour has an animal source – insects)
2-other names for the flour, which McFadden refers to as AKA (also known as)
3-Gluten: yes or no
4-Protein percentage
5-other nutrients – McFadden lists several of these, but for more detail the following websites list vitamins, minerals, and fiber:
www.healthline.com
www.webmed.com
Christine McFadden’s Flour: The Comprehensive Guide can be found on Amazon and Kindle to set up the above information for the 45 flours she writes about.
Quiz yourself on one item at a time until you know them all.
Happy Playing!
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
