Pastry for lactose intolerant friend

kah22

I'm baking an apple pie for a lactose intolerant friend. My normal pastry for such a pie would be 200g plain flour, 50g butter and 50g lard and I get pretty good results

This time, of course, I can't use butter. So I was wondering should I use 100g Block marg (I use Stork) or if I go 50/50 butter marg will I get a somewhat similar texture

As always many thanks for your advice

Kevin

bossymoo

Butter is mostly fat, lactose is sugar. Are you sure butter is out of the question? What does your friend use? Maybe look up a vegan recipe. Is trex a possibility?

My DD had milk and soy protein intolerance, I found vitalite or olive oil spreads were fine for cakes. But never tried pastry. It was, incidentally rubbish for "buttercream" as it was far too wet.

GwylimT

My daughter is lactose intolerant and a coeliac, we use lard instead of butter, I cannot stand the taste of margarine so it is something we haven't tried, remember only the block version is lactose free. If you did 50/50 butter and marg it will contain lactose.

kah22

GwylimT wrote: »

My If you did 50/50 butter and marg it will contain lactose.

Opps meant Marg/Lard!

daisiegg

Dairy free margarine works fine. Or if you want to cheat, jus rol puff and short rust pastry are both dairy free!

meritaten

daisiegg beat me to it! my son was dairy intolerant and I had been making pastry for him with soya marge. but it wasn't all that nice tbh - then I discovered that shop bought ready made pastry didn't contain any dairy! and tastes good too! just check the labelling as not all brands are dairy free - Jus roll was last time I checked.

Butterfly_Brain

You can make pastry using oil

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/26/olive-oil-pasties-recipe-lepard