Gluten-Free Pancake and Baking Mix

This mix I found in the book "Celebrating Food: 121 Gluten-Free Recipes for a Healthier You" by Susan Gauen. This book was a gift to me from my mother-in-law. It is AMAZING. The recipes are superb, easy, and fairly cheap. I love this flour mix mostly because it doesn't contain bean flours, which can be bitter. When measuring, spoon into measure cups and scrape over the top with a knife. This is important, otherwise your measurements will be off. Be sure to mix in the order given, and mix VERY WELL. This makes approx. 29 cups of flour mixture.


Ingredients:

8 1/2 C Brown Rice Flour
1 C Potato Starch
3/4 C plus 2 Tbs Baking Powder
3 Tbsp Salt
1/4 C plus 1 Tbs Xanthan Gum
4 C Coconut flour, almond meal, cornmeal (fine-ground), or oat flour (I used oat flour, because it was the least expensive)
4 1/2 C White Rice Flour
6 1/2 C Sorghum Flour
4 1/2 C Tapioca Flour (aka tapioca starch)


Directions:

Place the brown rice flour, potato starch, baking powder, salt, and xanthan gum into a large (very large) bowl in the order given. Use a large spoon to turn the mixture over and over, turning the bowl and scraping across the bottom of the bowl each time. Baked goods will only turn out correctly when the baking powder, salt, and xanthan gum are evenly distributed throughout the mix, so good mixing is important.

Add all remaining ingredients and do a very thorough mixing again (At this point I combined everything in the big bucket storage container I was going to store it in).

To ensure ingredients trapped in the bottom of the bowl are well mixed, tip the mixture into a different large bowl and mix thoroughly yet one more time (I just put the lid on and shook the bucket, then stirred more). Now the mix is ready to be used.

Storage:
Store in gallon jars, zip-top bags, or canisters with snug-fitting lids. If the mixture will not be used within one month or will be used in a humid climate, store in the refrigerator. The contents of the mix settle during storage, so use a whisk or fork to fluff it up each time before measuring.


*I store mine in my box-freezer, to save room in the fridge. It works just as well.*

I will post recipes using this flour, so stay tuned!