The Easy Way to Gluten and Dairy Free Baking
Article by Ian Pullinger
Watching members of my family struggle for years to find both simple and tasty gluten free and dairy free food, I set out on a mission to help them by finding a number of recipes that they can use. Most off-the-shelf gluten free and dairy free products are bland and expensive, requiring you to resort to cooking your own food. As our lives are getting ever more busy, it is important that we strike a balance between recipes that are tasty and healthy and ones that take many hours of preparation and cooking.
This is actually harder than it sounds. Many of the gluten free and dairy free recipes include ingredients such as guar gum and amaranth flour, that are very hard to find and can be expensive.
Considering my families love of cakes and baking, I decided to focus on baking recipes. On this page I will provide some insights into a set of recipes that are firm favourites in our family, ones which are both simple and tasty. They are also no more expensive that their non-gluten equivalents, which was an added bonus. Many gluten free diets replace gluten with ingredients of a higher fat content that can help maintain the taste. Therefore I believe that cooking you own gluten free foods is significantly more beneficial than relying on off-the-shelf products, whose ingredients and nutritional information should be scrutinised before purchasing.
Gluten free and dairy free diets are gaining in popularity, both in the US and globally. More people are seeing the health benefits of omitting gluten (and to a lesser degree dairy) from their diet.
After spending a long time reading books and watching videos, and an even longer time in the kitchen testing the recipes, I think that I have found a set of recipes that are worth sharing. Many of the other recipes I tested were over-complicated, tasted bland or the ingredients were quite expensive. One important factor was the availability of the ingredients. I found that a number of recipes would require me to shop in specialist health food shops, and I seemed to spend an eternity hunting down specific ingredients. The recipes I found however only use ingredients available at your local store. This is important and helps to keep them affordable.
We simply love the recipes in the book, and friends and family (even the children) absolutely love them. You cannot even tell they are gluten free and dairy free. Click here to read more about the recipes, including sample photos and some links to recommended reading and Web sites on gluten free diets.
Gluten free and dairy free baking is made easy with 80 delicious recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Muffins, Cupcakes, Ice Cream and Treats! Baking with ingredients you can find in your everyday store. These require no mixing of strange flours!
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After spending a long time reading books and watching videos, and an even longer time in the kitchen testing the recipes, I think that I have found a set of gluten free baking recipes that are worth sharing.
Click here to read more about the recipes, including sample photos and some links to recommended reading and Web sites on gluten free diets.
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