Chestnut Flour Bread

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine

By Beth Hensperger

Published 2000

  • About

Chestnut flour is often in a package labeled farina di castagne, as it is imported from Italy. It is one of my favorite specialty flours and I look for any opportunity to use it. The fine flour is like silk—I think it could have been used for powdering royal faces for court appearances a few hundred years ago. The character of this dough will reflect the chestnut flour you use—light and nutty or dark and smoky, depending on how the chestnuts were dried before they were ground into fl