Where to buy gluten flour in the UK

missmagenta — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:44:49 -0800

Where can I buy gluten powder/vital gluten flour in the UK? I want to make seitan but I'm having trouble sourcing the gluten powder to make it with. I've found a couple of online shops but the shipping is £5-7 for a £3 bag of flour. Yesterday I discovered Seitan - I'd had it before in a Linda McCartney ready-meal but I didn't know what it was, other than I really liked it - looking at the ingredient list didn't help, flour and water don't exactly stick out as unusual ingredients.

I tried to make some yesterday using regular flour and it went ok - aside from the fact I used wholemeal flour (it had bits in it which were pretty unpleasant). The thing is, it took about 600g of flour and 2 hours to make 4 little pieces.
The making it wasn't too bad, it was kinda fun and fascinating but really wasteful.

I looked for gluten powder but none of the big supermarkets seem to sell it.

90% of my google results are coming up with 'gluten-free' products.

Bonus points for good seitan recipes ;)

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