Gluten Free for Christmas?

morwenna

Hi all


I can come up with recipes for stuffing and a gluten free cake, but can anyone help with the pudding? Traditional Christmas pud has suet and I am not at all sure that it is gluten free - can anyone advise please? (I would check, but I currently don't have any in the pantry.) Recipes or tried and tested bought puds all would be very much appreciated.

candlelight_2013

Morwenna, I will be very interested in any replies.

I am not coeliac, but I have an intolerance to wheat and gluten. A lovely lady on one of the threads says that M&S have gluten free mince pies leading up to Christmas, so I imagine they might have small puddings.

I have tried making everyday cakes with gluten free flour, but not a great deal of success, I must be doing something wrong.

I would be grateful also for any tried and tested recipes

Candlelightx

PasturesNew

You can get gluten free suet... which seems to be priced at about £1.60 or so, rather than Atora's £1.10 or so.

january_23

Gluten free Xmas pudding that uses oil (probably vegetable which is rather cheap) instead of suet. http://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipes/gluten-free-christmas-pudding/
Just a note, I haven't made this but used similar recipes that worked well.

Bigjenny

Frugalqueen posted gluten free Christmas recipes on 9th November, can't link to her site as on tablet.

HTH

I_want_a_baby

A couple of days ago the frugal queen blog had some gluten free Christmas recipes - her food is amazing xx

morwenna

Thank you all for the very prompt responses. I haven't had too much success myself in converting regular cake recipes using gluten free flour, however have had some limited success with a polenta cake - it sank but tastes good. I am also working on a chocolate brownie recipe which I suspect, since it's meant to be densely textured, should work ok. I would very much appreciate a link to frugalqueens blog if any one can help?

WantToBeSE

Here's the link: http://www.frugalqueen.co.uk/search?updated-max=2014-11-10T19:29:00Z&max-results=1&start=3&by-date=false


EDIT she also does GF mince pies and other Christmas bits: http://www.frugalqueen.co.uk/2013/12/gluten-free-christmas-cake-and-mince.html

Bigjenny

http://www.frugalqueen.co.uk/2014/11/gluten-free-christmas-cooking.html

january_23

Looking at frugelqueens it says this: "300g of shredded Beef suet - £1.65 - GF tip - this comes covered in wheat flour - I rinsed it off as best I could"
For someone really intolerant or allergic this could be a problem. Vegetable oil/lard etc could probably be used in place though. Suet is just a fat at the end of the day.

cwtw

Hi all. You can definitely get gluten free suet - I bought some at one of the gluten free food fairs and it worked really well. However, M+S do a small gluten free pud that's awesome if you want one just for you.

In terms of making gluten free cakes - I've found if you put double the amount of gluten free baking powder in that a recipe recommends for "normal" cake then it usually rises quite well in my experience.