Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: RE: [fast5] (Heather

Friday, August 21, 2009

RE: [fast5] (Heather - food gifts (GFCF baking mix)

Awesome! Thanks for sharing! And I know that Joy of Cooking book is quite
old, isn't it? Amazing that you can find GF recipes in it!

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From: fast5@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fast5@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Heather Twist
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:52 PM
To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [fast5] (Heather - food gifts (GFCF baking mix)

Mostly when I cook GF, I just use the Joy of Cooking. Great cookbook!
Our ginger snap recipe is the Joy of Cooking ginger snap recipe. I don't
use modern cookbooks much, because they rely on premade "ingredients".
Like, to ice a cake: "buy a can of icing". Eesh.

Anyway, it is pretty much this one:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Grandmas-Gingersnap-Cookies/Detail.aspx

But I might add an extra egg. I'm very much into adding
extra eggs, partly because we have chickens, and partly
because the eggs make up for the lack of gluten. Also I
use coconut oil instead of butter or shortening: I get it in
5-gallon buckets from WildernessFamilyNaturals.com: it
doesn't taste like coconuts and it is great for cooking. High
in lauric acid and MCT too.

We used to use sorghum flour from TwinValleyMills.com ... sorghum
cooks like wheat (so does buckwheat and amaranth), but it
gives my dh indigestion for some reason.

For bread I have a recipe (it's at my website) but for the others I
randomly mix rice/potato/tapioca flour/corn starch (depending what we
have) or use "Jules" mix. Cookies really don't care much about gluten
... Julia Childs used corn starch in a lot of recipes to avoid the
toughness that wheat gluten gives.
The trick in cookies, no matter what kind of flour you use, is to get the
consistency right: it will vary according to the water content of the flour
and
the size of the eggs. Baking one "test" cookie helps: if it flattens
too much, add
more flour.

The best advice I can give to people who are just getting into cooking
is to subscribe to Cook's magazine. They teach you the "why" of
cooking, and usually come up with the easiest and best way to
make whatever dish it is. YouTube cooking videos are great too.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Karen<laurvick@charter.net> wrote:
> The fruit plate sounds good.
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> When baking GFCF, do you use a baking mix or make your own?
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> Again, would you share a recipe?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fast5@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fast5@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Heather Twist
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:53 PM
> To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [fast5] (Heather - food gifts
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> It's funny, but in our family "cookies" are just "normal emergency
> food". That is, we always have a cookie jar full of GFCF cookies,
> .
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> I think for a workout partner I'd be tempted to make a dish of
> fresh fruit salad:
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