coeliac recipes please

[mimififi]

Hi guys, me again, as inept as ever:

I need nice tasting recipes for cakes/breads/biscuits etc that are wheat/gluten and dairy free.

We have a birthday coming up and three of the attenders are coeliac and one is coeliac/dairy intolerent.

Anyone have any trusted recipes.

(p.S I've looked on google, but I want recipes that have been tried and tested, not ones pulled out of a book, research I can do, advice is what i'm after.)

cheery-cheers

[Scarlett]

Really hard to make wheat AND gluten free food - I suggest you go to your local big chain supermarket as they will have a shelf full of this stuff. If you can then go to another big chain, they will have even more!

[mimififi]

umm, do shop there alot, but there isn't a great deal of choice despite their being more than in years before. Also, much of it also has dairy in, only 1 or 2 things are gluten and milk free. :-(

thanks for your help tho.

[beryllium]

Hi mimififi.... I'm gluten intolerant too. There is a flour in the gluten free section, tesco, sainsburys and asda, called DOVES FARM, plain white flour. On this bag is a recipe for chocolate brownies and I make this as a cake... decorate with sifted flour et voila......

Here's the recipe..

4oz Butter

3oz dark chocolate (i use 70%.)

4oz gluten free flour

3 eggs

4oz chopped walnuts can always be omitted if nut free

8oz caster sugar

1tsp baking powder

1. Melt chocolate and butter

2. Seperate bowl, sift flour and mix in baking powder, sugar and nuts

3.Beat in eggs followed by melted butter and chocolate

4. Pour into 6" x 8" oiled and lined baking tin

5. Bake at 180c / 350f / gas mk 4 for 30 mins

it really is a lovely moist cake, I do check with a scewer after 30 mins to make sure it's cooked......

[mimififi]

berrylium, thanks for that, I have some df flour, but didn't think to look on there. I normally have the prescription one. I have to admit to being one of the three in the post so to speak and my daughter also who is 4 and my mum. It's her party and i wanted something special and home baked and the stuff in store although good is just al the same......

That brownie rec sounds ideal. I shall certianly try it. It is really hard trying to get dairy free aswell as gluten free. It is my daughter who is also dairy intolerent, poor little thing she misses out on all the little party food etc when she gets invited out and has to take a lunch box to people's parties etc. It's a little sad.....

Still, thanks for the idea, I'll try it tonight i think,

[beryllium]

Just a quickie, I've also made carrot cake with this flour and if they're dairy intolerant then use a sunflower oil or Tesco Pure Sunflower Spread as this is the only lactose free spread I know of...

[beryllium]

giggles, ok... because you are gluten free and littlun' is dairy free.... i'm on goats milk products now and yep, good ol' doves farm...

please let me know how it goes.....

[mimififi]

Beryllium, cheers. I tried Goats for a while and liked it, but she is just too sensitive to lactose, more's the pity.

I shall definately try your recipes though. i normally cook with stork block baking margerine as that is DF, although the one in a tub isnt bizarrely. Easy enough to adapt to dairy free, but some of those GF recipes just don't work and go all crumbly.

SO you like the Doves Farm? Do you find it less crumbly than other gluten free flour? As I say, I've only used it on occasion as I get a Juvela one on script, but always run out. Would you recommend anything else?

[fliptopp]

use soya milk and GF flour to make good sweet or savoury batters for pancakes or coat veggies for dips.

[beryllium]

little late i know, but i do use Rice Flour for pastry, have used it for the base to Bakewell Tart, once you've made the pastry, following the instructions, (it can't be needed like a glutenous pastry), i just press it into the baking tin, bake blind for 10 mins and then follow the recipe for the filling and topping....

[mimififi]

ummm, interesting, I've not used rice flour before, but when I've had to 'roll' pastry, I roll it in between two pieces of snap wrap/cling film and it makes it easy to handle.....

but I shall try your method, less time consuming I should think. I love bakewell tart, or used to till it became a banned substance that I should be interested in that recipe too.

You are a wealth of knowledge!

[beryllium]

Hi mimi, this is a nice recipe, I just top with flaked almonds before baking, and I use St Dalfour raspberry jam... sugar free and gorgeous....

http://www.astray.com/recipes/?show=Bakewell%20tart(english)

[beryllium]

hmmmm, i guess you may have to put bakewell tart into the blank bit.... it's just the filling is soooo nice and the rice pastry is fine.... taste and experiment, as my lot found out!!!! :-)