You can cook cookies without flour. The recipe may call for a different type of flour, such as rice flour or tapioca flour.
The white membrane you get when you cook a mixture of rice and wheat flour, water and tapioca appears because of the starch contained in the dry ingredients.
You can in emergencies, but it isn't paleo. Soy isn't a paleo-friendly ingredient.
A good substitute for corn flour if is being used for thickening, is potato starch. You can also use regular flour that has been mixed and cooked with a small amount of butter in a skillet beforehand.
You can use tapioca flour in some cookie recipes. It does not act like wheat flour, so only use tapioca flour if the recipe specifically says to.
The flours that are gluten free are Tapioca flour, Corn flour, Potato flour, and Rice flour. This is usually a very common question and many people are always confused just because it has the word flour in it. But these flours are defiantly safe as they do not come from wheat.
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In general cornstarch is used to thicken liquids and can be replaced with flour, arrowroot, potato starch, tapioca, coconut flour and even instant mashed potato granules. For frying, flour, salt and pepper is a decent substitute for cornstarch.
Ordinary flour, also known as wheat flour, can't be used as a reliable substitute for rice flour. Wheat flour has different properties. Rice flour takes on the flavor of the food it is prepared with, while wheat flour has a strong flavor of its own. Rice flour does not contain gluten, which acts as a binding agent, and wheat flour does. Wheat flour tends to form clumps of dough when mixed with water, while rice flour tends to form a smooth batter, the consistency of thick paste. If you substitute wheat flour for rice flour in a recipe, the taste, texture, and amounts used will be incorrect and the recipe may fail completely. Corn starch, tapioca starch and potato starch are better substitutes for rice flour.