Gluten, lactose, dairy, wheat free cooking

[Mac]

Wow!! a friend has lent me an excellent book :) Its by Marilyn Le Breton its called The AiA (Allergy induced Autism) Gluten and Dairy Free Cookbook ISBN 1843100673.

Primarily for parents who are implementing a gluten, casein DGa and artificial sugar free diet for their child who is on the autism spectrum, but also of help for coeliacs, those allergic to dairy and or lactose and those allergic, intollerant to wheat, probably a good 400 pages of recipes covering everything you could imagine from Jamaican Chicken Bake, Indian Carrot Cake and Manchester Tart down to Ranch Dressing for Salads, Honey and Lemon Candy sticks right down to playbubbles and play dough for the Kids!!

There are formulas/Mixes to make your own Gluten free flour (plain and self raising) Matt, maybe these would be of use to you? Also egg substitutes and dairy substitutes, plus many more, I am definately going to order this book, I have not yet come across one as good as this.

[Mac]

It even tells you how to make your own dairy free sweetened condensed milk!! (yes I am starting to sound a little too excited by this book I know.....)

[Copper]

Sounds interesting I will have to keep an eye out for this book.

[matt]

i've actually got this book and a couple of others similar. i just can't motivate myself to make myself stuff.

i'll happily go to the trouble to make stuff for my daughter or another relative for their birthday etc but not me.......:( .
thanks for the thought though

[Mac]

I know what you mean.. .. our kids eat better than we do too!!.

[matt]

i try to eat well but easily. i'm a great fan of tinned fish. good for you and easy. with some frozen veg. then the bad bit oven chips done on the grill. really quick, easy, no real effort. fast food that isn't too bad for me. too much hassle to bother cooking properly when just for me. and can guarentee dairy wheat free. you do have to be carefull with the chips though.

[zoefruitcake]

pretty please any chance of giving us the recipe for the condensed milk? ;)

I'm loathed to buy any more dairy free books that are just chock full of meaty recipes

[Mac]

Sory, just seen this? I must have missed it before, bad/good news. I have given the book back but I have ordered a copy! so as soon as it arrives I will post the recipe!!

[tan]

Just bought the book - hope it is good - so here is the recipefor sweetened condensed milk. Half a cup of Dari-Free (what is that?) three quarters cup sugar, 2 tablespoons dairy free margarine and half teaspoon of xanthan gum or guar gum. Mix all ingredients together well. Bring ingredients slowly to the boil over a medium heat, stirring constantly. boil for 1 minute or until thick and bubbling, stirring constantly. chill liquid before adding to a recipe

[Mac]

think dari free is dairy free milk.

[matt]

seems a lot of trouble for what is effectively custard? and you can buy packets of that. sorry just being lazy today.

[Pam]

Vance's Dari free is a potato based alternative to milk which I think comes in powder form but judging from that recipe you use it already made up so in theory any alternative milk would do. I think you can get dari free from their own site but it seems quite expensive to me (11.10 Euros for enough to make 6 litres plus 19 euros postage!) and I wasn't impressed with their advertising methods either. http://www.darifreeeurope.com/main.asp?p=darifree

[Mac]

Oh no Matt!!!!!! custard is not the same as condensed Milk!!!! Conny Onny Butties, mmmmm now that takes me way back............

[Pam]

Remember when you used to get it in a tube? We used to put it on digestive biscuits - very sickly but yummy

[Mac]

:drool: :drool: yes, we did that too!! or just on toast :drool: or sometimes me and my brother used to pour some onto a saucer and freeze it and then eat it semi frozen with a spoon!!

[lyndamc]

Must be a yorkshire tradition!! Makes me feel sick just thinking about it!!
The only reason I can remember using condensed milk is to make Caramel Shortbread. Yummmmm.... :drool:

[Pam]

yes we did caramel shortbread - or mars bar biscuit (with a chocolate coating) but you can't beat a bit of condensed on digestive biscuits. Naughty but nice.

[lyndamc]

mmmm not convinced!!!
I made Jam Roly Poly tonight and used up my last carton of soya custard, i must say it was lovely!!

[matt]

no i've been there. condensed milk sandwich etc. i was just wondering what you were going to use the alternative for? or is it just for a sandwich??!:lol2:


now tell me how to make caramel:drool:

[Pam]

I've seen quite a few recipes that make caramel by boiling an unopened tin of condensed milk in a pan of water for a couple of hours. Maybe if you boil the home made condensed milk long enough it will turn into caramel. You'd have to be really careful with it to make sure it didn't burn though - maybe do it in a double boiler.

[matt]

i think it'd be safer to go down the road of attempting home made fudge and using that instead. i don't think it'll work via the condensed milk route like real caramel does. and i don't much fancy trying to clean the results!

[JDArsenal]

Thanks Mac for this book recommendation - as a fool I too have bought every book that claims dairy free recipes and it now colelcts cobwebs high in a cupboard somewhere - but this one shows recipes for Pesto and other things I thought I could no longer enjoy as all the dairy free ones contain yeast or eggs which I'm also allergic too................Wonderful book - thank you again !

[matt]

good to hear this one's worth the money. as has been said. so many have been useless full of daft receipes or ones that an idiot could figure out ie roast lamb is dairy free!!!

it's the complicated stuff that we need receipes for.

[Copper]

A bit like the dairy free food lists from the supermarkets - the one from Tesco had a loooong list of fruit and vegetables!!!

[Pam]

Well they've got to fill it out somehow haven't they? It looks better if it is a bit thicker.

[matt]

i actually think they have an extremely low opinion of their customers and actually think we need to be told these things are dairy free! i mean we do get told that packets of peanuts may contain nuts. or that coffee might be hot.:lol2:

i'm suprised they list anything. it'd be so much safer and easier for them to just say they can't confirm anything is safe.

i told you the reply from one of the american biscuit people when i suggested increasing their range? sorry we don't accept any suggestions etc etc. too worried that they'll be sued for stealing someones idea!

where do you draw the line? people need to be responsible for their actions or inactions but.........

any other good receipes from the book??

[linny]

I finally found the free from list on the M & S website. It's the only grocery shop at Bluewater so we sometimes pop in there for bits, can't afford to do a complete shop there! Anyway they do have a few more cakes and biscuits that are dairy free so I'm going to treat myself next time we go there.;)

Asda Rich Tea also seem to be dairy free now. I used to have to get Sainsburys ones. Exciting choice aren't they!!!:bleh:

[Mac]

Linny, their dairy free margarine spread thick on their ginger cake (dairy free) is heavenly, also I might add that for me the M&S marg is the cheapest dairy free I can find, its 89p, and all the Pure around here is 95p.

[PinkyPrincess]

Custard = soya custard from Sainsbury's free from range
Cream = Alpro soya dream
Cake = from a health food shop or Goodness Direct

I'm so lazy!!

But seriously, any recipies you could plagiarise from this book would be gratefully received, preferably simple tasty ones!