What to do with old white flour

We made bread and fed it to piglets. They loved it.

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I have the same situation, not the taste, but age of some flour my sister had for eons. I've been debating what to do with it. I think I'll make some dog biscuits from some of it, and I believe I read about dusting plants with old flour to deter insects, but don't quote me on that until I find the information again!
Found the following on a site called Associated Content:

Flour is the major ingredient in foods whether it be cookies, cakes, brownies, pancakes or simply used for breading meats and veggies. However flour can be used for many things around the house besides food. Below you will find 5 household uses for flour.

Put out a grease fire

House fires many times start in the kitchen from a grease fire on the stove. If grease spills on your burners, turn off the burners and grab your flour pour it on the fire, before it gets out of hand. The flour will smother the fire out. It makes a mess though and you will have to clean your stove after wards.

Clean your playing cards

After playing with cards they start to get sticky from the snacks you eat while playing and hand oil. Get a bag and put some flour in it, drop the cards into the bag and shake vigorously and remove the cards. The flour absorbs the oil, and the flour is easily knocked off the cards by giving them a forceful shuffle.

Bring luster back to your dull sink

Stainless steel sinks start to loose their luster over time. You can purchase products to bring the luster back or just use flour. Sprinkle flour over the sink and rub it lightly with a dry, soft cloth. Then just rinse the flour away and your stainless steel sink has its shine back.

Safe paste for your Childs craft projects

For a safe and non toxic paste, grab that bag of flour. Flour is the perfect and safe way to make paste for the kiddies. To make the paste add 1 cup all-purpose flour to a saucepan and stir in 3 cups of cold water. Stir the mixture constantly until it starts to boil. Reduce the heat and simmer, stirring the paste until it is thick and smooth. Cool and then pour into a squeeze bottle. When not using store in the refrigerator.

Modeling clay

Flour is a great product to make your own modeling clay and a lot cheaper. You can have the kids help you make this clay. Knead 3 cups of flour, 1 cup of water, ¼ cup salt, 1 tsp vegetable oil and 2 drops of desired color of food coloring. If the mixture is too stiff add more water, if it is too sticky add some more flour. When you have the clay to the right consistency store it zipper plastic bags or sealable bowls.
Jan in Co

I'll have to try that one!

I'll have to get some cheap white flour, first. I'm not going to use my organic WW flour for cleaning the sink!

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I am not sure about the grease fire thing. I had a boyfriend who work at a grocery store that had a bag of flour fall on the floor. He had to sweep it up and threw it into the incinerator and it blew up and he ended up with no eyebrows or bangs. I had no clue that it was so flamable. Of course, that was on a different kind of fire, but I am not sure if I would put it on a grease fire. I believe that baking soda is what you put on grease fires.

As far as old flour goes, I like the playdoh idea!

maybe the water for the yeast was the wrong temp

you could try pancakes and see if that worked

I agree with tater it is probably the yeast. Usually I feed (sugar) mine before adding it. If it still foams it is good yeast, if not toss it.

Pouncer - my grandmother says her granny would not bake bread with any flour that wasn't at least 5 years old.

I don't think it's the flour. The only time I've ever had flour go bad was many years ago when I purchased some buggy flour. I now purchase it in 25+ lb bags and keep it in the deep freeze. I've had some bread flour for a couple of years and it works just fine.

I have had some yeast for a couple of years in the fridge and have not had it go bad either. I'd suspect that the yeast would go bad much more easily than the flour.

Well, if you're sure it's the flour, save it til summer & when you have a field fullof grasshoppers, spread it around. It will repel 'em.

Patty

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Hi,

We make chinking with flour, here is a picture of our poplar logs and chinking, from another post.


Double Tree on varnished poplar logs, near stove. Chinking is 1/3 sawdust, 1/3 flour, 1/3 lime, insulation is moss.

This is from further on in that post, about mixing chinking,

Depends on how you mix it. After a few batches you get the hang of it. You have to mix it dryer for bigger spaces; mix it wetter, even a little runny, for smaller cracks or finishing. I have used caulking recently, when to lazy to mix a batch to seal off an area outside which I didn't like the looks of. But I should have mixed up a batch, because it last longer.

Inside, when it's varnished (only was varnished for the last five years -- before that no varnish) it will last (I want to write forever, of course that's not true) a long time. With good roof overhans it will stay dry. This fall, as mentioned, for the first time, we have added a stain-sealer to the outside. That should seal the chinking and help keep it even better.


That's me, with lime in the blue bucket, flour from the yellow bag, some shavings on the ground. Then you mix it with water, about like the mentioned dough, or thinner, depending.

Have fun, give it a try, you can always change it, if you can get it out.

Alex

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I would avoid trying this at home .
I have used flour in air fuel fireballs before it works very well ,not quite the same color flame as say calf starter or coffee cream but still very impressive.
the point is that flour is flamable and even explosive . it can smolder for hours and when exposed to an Oxygen source explode violently