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On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:07:17 -0500, (z z) wrote:

> Having never used oatmeal flour before I substituted it into a recipe
> once and learned a lesson-I ended up with a solid brick of clay. Oatmeal
> is heavy and sucks up moisture like you wouldn't believe (ditto for
> flaxmeal.) Follow the recipe.

I did and it turned out to be a very heavy dough. The directions said
to let it rise for an hour and cautioned that it might not double in
that time, but it's only been half an hour and it has doubled already.

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