Gluten Free the old style way

tigerfeet2006

You need a BM with a gluten setting. The timings etc. are different for gluten free. I have the Panasonic SD255 and find it fabulous, my lot love the fruit bread. The bread is definatly heavier though.

I use Doves farm bread flour and ordinary flour for my cooking and baking. I cook everything from scratch and it is surprising how much the family can eat together. I have to cook different pasta for my 2 boys, it is a bit stodgy but they don't seem to mind. I think they are young enough not to remember what proper pasta.

Black Farmer Sausages are brilliant but a bit pricey so are used as a treat.

moonpixiewitch

http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/?p=1396

have tried this ...no bread maker required ....and its actually edible !

Nickitree30

With regards to pasta, the one I found to be most like normal pasta both taste and texture wise is Bob the Builder pasta. I'm not coeliac but have digestive issues when I eat wheat. I read somewhere the best way to cook GF pasta is in a large pot, bring the water to the boil before adding the pasta. It seems to work because previously I used to cook it in a small pot and it went really stodgy.

mum2kathryn

roshydoshy wrote: »

she's tried everything, at first we thought it was because she didn't like it but we all switched with her when she is around, but she struggles to keep it down. we've tried to make our own in a breadmaker - does anyone else have issues that it doesn't come out properly using one of these? uncooked in the middle and basically like a brick!!

Is it possible she's sensative to something else as well? A friend of mine is intolerant to corn which is a lot of gf products.

mum2kathryn

moonpixiewitch wrote: »

http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/?p=1396

have tried this ...no bread maker required ....and its actually edible !

Sorghum flour is a new one on me. But those instructions with the photos are really useful - I wish all recipe books were that clear!

LJM

can anyone point me in the right direction for a page or link please

megc_2

Lots of information and recipes at:

http://www.coeliac.org.uk/
http://members2.boardhost.com/glutenfree/
http://www.glutafin.co.uk/
http://www.juvela.co.uk/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/diets/gluten_free
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipes/gluten-free-recipes.aspx

Can you tell I have to stick to a gf diet?!
Don't know what sort of recipes you're looking for, but savoury meals are fairly easy to make as it's just a case of adapting the grains sometimes. Baking can be more tricky, but is much easier now with the new Doves Farm flours (self-raising and plain) as you can use your normal recipes, substitute the gf flour and simply add a little more liquid (an extra egg, or large instead of medium eggs, or a tbsp of milk/ water usually works well for me).

firionicable

I think I have made a gluten-free food lists last month due that I was diagnosed and daw that I have malabsorption. It is a sort of minimal illness that your digestive system is not acting properly. Meaning, the food that you intake will not be digested properly. What I did is to get more alkaline for my body, eat food with less acid and do a fiber-rich diet. That is what I am doing up until now for a healthier living.

erdd2

http://www.recipes4us.co.uk/Recipes.htm

sunflowergirl

This is a lovely moist chocolate cake recipe, it is nice hot with custard or cold as a cake cut in thick slices and topped with dairy free 'buttercream'

100g doves farm brown bread gf flour
1 level teaspoon gf baking powder
1 dessert spoon cadburys bournville cocoa
40g granulated sugar
1 rounded dessert spoon of golden syrup
40g dairy free margarine (i used sainsburys free from)
1/2 level teaspoon bicarbonate soda
1/2 small cup of rice or soya milk

method

sieve flour, baking powder and cocoa together.

Heat syrup, sugar, margarine, milk and bicarbonate soda together until sugar has dissolved.

Add to flour and cocoa and mix well (i used a balloon whisk)
pour this runny mix into a greased lined small tin (mine measures 19cm x 10cm x 5cm)

bake at 180 c for 25-30 mins (170 c for fan oven)
when knife comes out clean it is done.