Title: Substitutes and Suggestions for Gluten Free Living
Categories: Info, Healthy, Grains
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Gluten Free Ideas
For cookies, mix wheat starch and soy flour in any proportion in
the quantity called for in the original recipe
Use your own allowed granola mix to replace nuts and give
crunchiness to cookies.
In recipes calling for milk or water, heat these liquids slightly
before adding to dry ingredients. Shortening may also be melted
in this warm liquid which will cut down on mixing times.
For bread recipes, double the amounts called for and make several
small loaves. They freeze well. Since the loaves dry out in about
two days cut loaves into pieces before freezing and defrost
these as needed.
Use crushed cornflakes or crisp rice cereals for crumbing foods or
in desserts such as apple crisps and pie crusts. Use potato chips
for casseroles.
A banana blends ingredients together well.
Batters made from flours other than wheat may appear much thinner
or much thicker than batters made from wheat flours.
Cakes made with substitute flours other than wheat tend to be dry.
The moisture can be preserved by icing the cake or by storing them
tightly covered.
Meat cookies can be quickly made by just mixing a jar of baby meat
with rice or other pablum, and adding 1/2 ts baking powder. Bake
in moderate oven for about 10 minutes.
The thickening sauces, gravies or puddings, substitute one of the
following for 1 tb wheat flour: 1/2 tb cornstarch, 1/2 tb
potato starch flour, 1/2 tb rice starch, 1/2 tb arrowroot
starch, 2 ts quick cooking tapioca, 2 ts tapioca flour.
Wheat free spaghetti and noodles are available in specialty
stores. Chinese bean threads are an acceptable substitute for
spaghetti, as is spaghetti squash.
And equal amount of frozen french fries may be substituted in a
casserole to replace macaroni, spaghetti or noodles.
To bread fish, chops and chicken, dip meat into rice flour,
diluted evaporated milk, then into allowed crumbs. Refrigerate
one hour before cooking.
You can make your own 'breading' mixture. Mix 1 cup of
recommended flour, 1 cup allowed bread crumbs, 1 ts seasoned
salt, 1/4 ts pepper, 1/4 ts spice. Keep in plastic bags in the
refrigerator or freezer.
Hold meat together in patties or meat loaf with cooked oatmeal,
grated nuts or potato.
Origin: The Allergy Cookbook
From: Sharon Stevens in Home Cooking
