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solarmonarch in wheatbegone

First Attempts in Wheat-Free Baking

Jul 25, 2007 10:55

I'd never contemplated going without wheat until I met laurak29 and found out that people can be wheat intolerant. It blew my mind! I was also disturbed by the lack of wheat-free alternatives I had seen in the regular grocery store, but I didn't quite know how to go about side-stepping the issue.

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oakenking July 25 2007, 16:24:34 UTC

The cookies sound pretty amazing - I'll have to give them a try!

I don't know what brand of brown rice flour you're getting, but if you have access to Authentic Foods' Superfine, it's really great quality. Some of the rice flours have a little too much grit to them, and it's very nearly perfect in that respect.

solarmonarch July 25 2007, 16:57:13 UTC

Excellent - thanks for the tip!

Currently, all the flours I'm using are the Ener-G brand, which is what the Golden Cash Cow stocks.

twistedcat July 25 2007, 17:26:35 UTC

the thing i've been craving lately is bagels.

i should post my sugar cookies made of awesome (but not wheat) recipe...

solarmonarch July 25 2007, 19:42:54 UTC

I haven't run across a bagel recipe, but if I do, I'll let you know. :-)

How fun are sugar cookies?! I smell somebody getting to do cookie cutters and multi-colored sprinkles for the holidays...

twistedcat July 25 2007, 17:28:22 UTC

DeBoles makes a rice lasagne noodle, just read the instructions, because you don't boil them first

solarmonarch July 25 2007, 19:44:03 UTC

I am pleased to announce the return of lasagna to my traditional birthday lunch menu.

laurak29 July 26 2007, 01:25:03 UTC

I've had pretty good luck at SuperTarget. They carry rice noodles that we've used in spaghetti, and these tasty and cheap frozen wheat-free-gluten-free waffles by a company called "Van's". However, they do not carry Ezekiel Bread stuff.
There's a new Whole Foods in town (at long last), but I have not darkened their door, assuming that they'll be prohibitively expensive. They could have some alternatives, though...

Pizza recipe alternative solarmonarch July 27 2007, 15:24:43 UTC

I did another batch of the pizza last night in an attempt to get it right. Here's the adjustment to the recipe:

Ingredients: remove the ½ teaspoon of salt. Add: 1½ teaspoon garlic salt, 1 teaspoon Parmesan cheese, 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning (the dry herb mix I used was from Publix).

Method: Before combining the dry ingredients (including the newly added ones), add the packet of yeast to the warm water (between 100º and 110º to allow the yeast to bloom). When it came time to combine wet ingredients, I just added the oil and vinegar to the yeast water, and proceeded as given. For baking, I blind baked for 20 minutes, then topped the pizza crust and baked for an additional 15 minutes.

The baking crust smelled AWESOME! The flavor was much better, and the texture was closer to traditional wheat-based pizza crust.