Tapioca Flour is a grain-free flour derived from the cassava root. It is a starchy, slightly sweet, white flour.  This white-powdered unmodified starch is perfect as a thickener. It reaches a high viscosity quickly at lower temperature. Use it as a binder with flours to hold baked goods together.

This is the Tapioca Flour recommended by Silvana Nardone in her book Cooking for Isaiah.

To avoid Lumps:  mix the starch with an equal amount of cold liquid until it forms a paste, then whisk it into the liquid you're trying to thicken.  Once the thickener is added, cook it briefly to remove the starchy flavor.  Don't overcook--liquids thickened with some starches will thin again if cooked too long or at too high a temperature.

Suggestions:
1. For every cup of flour, add 10 percent of Tapioca flour.  Some recipes for baked goods also call for tapioca flour because it imparts a chewier texture
2. Use about 1/4 to 1/2 cup per recipe to sweeten breads made with rice and millet flour.
3. Tapioca flour thickens quickly, and at a relatively low temperature.
4. If you plan to freeze a dish, use Tapioca flour as a thickener.
5. Tapioca flour is a good choice for thickening pie fillings, since it thickens at a lower temperature than cornstarch, remains stable when frozen, and imparts a glossy sheen. Many pie recipes call for instant tapioca instead of tapioca starch, but instant tapioca doesn't dissolve completely and leaves small gelatinous blobs suspended in the liquid.
6. Tapioca flour is finely ground so that it dissolves completely, eliminating the gelatinous blob problem.
7. The Tapioca flour is sometimes used to thicken soups, stews, and sauces, but the glossy finish looks a bit unnatural in these kinds of dishes.  It works quickly, though, so it's a good choice if you want to correct a sauce just before serving it.

Country of Origin:  Thailand

Tapioca Flour comes from a dedicated Gluten Free source and is processed on our hand line, (the flour is scooped directly from the supplier’s bag and put into the Shiloh Farms Tapioca bag and then sealed).

Ingredients: Ground Tapioca (starch).

Read SHILOH FARMS Clean Processing Policy and Procedure