[kokopuffs]

The pancake recipe in The Baker's Companion by KA calls for the addition of 1/4 Cup of malt aka "malted milk powder"(sic). Would this be diastatic malt used for breaking down starches or non-diastatic malt for just flavoring. I just want to be certain of which of the malts to purchase.

What's stated in the Companion and I'll paraphrase is that malt, instead of sugar, is used for sweetening most commercial pancake batters.

(EDIT) Has anyone out there tried using either of those two ingredients or the malted milk powder that KA sells????

 

[chefross]

Here's a little info I gleaned for you from freshloaf.com:

Non-diastatic malt is simply for coloring and flavoring.

(The color change is most pronounced in the crust. You can easily go all the way from a light golden crust to a dark brown crust.)

Diastatic malt (often in the form of "malted barley flour") in addition to the coloring and flavoring effects alsoaffects the developing chemistry of the dough.

• diastatic malt is sometimes used by professional or organic bakers to reduce the "falling number" of flour - what's that? home bakers don't need to care, as U.S. flour makers have usually already put tiny amounts in their retail flours as needed
• use diastatic malt only in very small quantities (as little a 1/4 teaspoon per loaf)
• just a little too much diastatic malt will make the crumb of the bread "gummy", often impossibly so
• diastatic malt can make the rising process work better so you get higher breads ...but using it is a form of playing "chicken": a little rises higher, twice a little is even better, but three times a little and suddenly your bread is wrecked
  

 

[flipflopgirl]

They (the KA peeps) want you to use whatever it is that they sell.

Is there sugar in the recipe?

mimi

 

[kokopuffs]

....Is there sugar in the recipe?

mimi

The KA recipe calls for either a spoonful of sugar or 1/4 C of malted milk powder. The latter supposedly gives is that "restaurant" flavor.

 

[flipflopgirl]

There you go.

I am partial to the flavor of malt so if it was on hand (which it usually is) I would add it.

mimi

 

[brianshaw]

... not in the mood...

 

[kokopuffs]

I have no idea what KA is selling (have you asked them?)...................

Go and visit the KA website to see what their malted milk powder contains.

 

[brianshaw]

... not in the mood...

 

[brianshaw]

Go and visit the KA website to see what their malted milk powder contains.

Sorry, I'm not doing your homework.

 

[kokopuffs]

Sorry, I'm not doing your homework. trla ev' I

I've already done mine to see what theirs contains. Now you go and look up to see what their powder contains.

 

[brianshaw]

I've already done mine to see what theirs contains. Now you go and look up to see what their powder contains.

... not in the mood...

Have a nice day.