Nutty Buckwheat Flour Good for Robust Seasonal Dishes

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Buckwheat flour adds texture and nutty flavor to pasta, cookies and other foods. Recipes for sugar cookies, blini and pizzoccheri demonstrate its versatility.
The flour's rich yet subtle flavors mingle well with robust seasonal favorites.
Buckwheat may seem like an old familiar in savory Breton crepes or in earthy, ...
... nutty Japanese soba noodles, but it's also a uniquely versatile ingredient that can be baked into biscuits, rolled into Italian pasta and embraced in other ways that might surprise even, say, a veteran cookie baker. Cookies become crumblier, pancakes have a richer crumb, pasta remains firmer, and they all benefit from buckwheat's nuttiness, its texture and substance. ...

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