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Sugar Free Cake
Ingredients
- 8ozs sultanas/raisins soaked overnight in pure fruit juice
- 4ozs self raising flour
- 2 eggs
- 4ozs margarine
Method
- Cream the margarine
- Beat the eggs
- Mix in half the eggs
- Fold in the rest of the egg with 1oz of flour
- Fold in the rest of the flour
- Add the fruit and any juice left from soaking
- Put into a round greased cake tin and cook for about 30 minutes on Gas Mark 5
Wheat Free Porridge — serves 2 to 4
Ingredients
- 250g mixed oat bran & porridge oats
- 2 tbsp shelled hemp seeds/pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds
- A dessert spoon of organic honey or fructose (optional)
Method
- Place grains in 1.5 litres water, soya milk or rice milk in a saucepan
- Bring to boil, lower to simmer, stirring until thickened
- Remove from heat drizzle over honey
Wheat Free Muesli
Combine either —
- Barley flakes
- Oat bran
- Rice Flakes
- Rolled Oats
- Puffed Rice
With
- Alfalfa Seeds
- Flax Seeds
- Hemp Seeds
- Linseed
- Sesame Seeds
- Sunflower Seeds
And with
- Almonds
- Brazils
- Cashews
- Coconut
- Hazelnuts
- Macadamias
- Walnuts
Adding
- Apple Juice (freshly pressed)
- Rice Milk
- Soya Milk
- Goats Milk
Dried fruit is optional.
Potato Free Mash - Serves 4
Ingredients
- 100g of millet
- pinch of salt
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 1 sweet potato cubed
- Black Pepper
Method
- Wash millet and drain put in saucepan with salt and water, boil and simmer for 20 min's
- Bring to boil, lower to simmer, stirring until thickened
- Remove and drain, return to pan and mash with a little dairy free spread (optional)
- Drain millet and mash in with other ingredients
- Add Black pepper (optional)
Houmous
Ingredients
- 400 g tin of chickpeas
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 3 tbspns of tahini
- Juice of a lemon
- 1 tbsp of olive oil
Method
- Put all ingredients in a food processor, blend until smooth.
Sugar and vinegar free mayonnaise
Ingredients
- 1 whole egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- Quarter of teaspoon of salt
- Quarter of teaspoon of fructose
- Half teaspoon of dry mustard
- black pepper
- 125g of veg or sunflower oil
- Garlic or herbs (optional)
Method
- In this sequence pour the egg with unbroken yolk plus extra egg, with oil and lemon juice in bowl
- use hand blender to mix for approx 30 sec's
- Plunging blender up and down to emulsify oil several times
- Fold in remaining ingredients
- If mixture curdles add another egg and repeat in sequence
Soda Bread
Ingredients
- 1 lb wholemeal flour (or gluten free flour if wheat intolerant)
- 8 oz white flour (or spelt flour)
- 1 teaspn salt
- 1 teaspn bicarbonate of soda
- 1oz of rolled oats (optional)
- half a pint of buttermilk (or soya or goats milk if cows milk intolerant)
- 3 tablespoons of live natural yoghurt (optional)
Method
- Set oven to 425 F or mark 7
- Combine together flours, salt, bicarbonate of soda and salt
- Stir in sufficient of chosen liquid to make a soft dough
- Turn out on a lightly floured surface and knead VERY lightly, before shaping into a round loaf
- Place on a greased baking sheet and using a floured knife slash the top with a cross.
- Bake for 20 -30 min's or until the loaf sounds hollow when tapped on the base
- Serve warm or allow to cool slice and freeze
Wheat Free Scotch Pancakes — Makes 16 Pancakes
Ingredients
- 4 oz's gluten free flour
- 1 teaspn of bicarbonate of soda
- 1 and a half teaspn of cream of tartar
- 1 oz of caster sugar of fructose
- 1 egg
- A quarter of a pint of milk, (rice, soya or goats milk)
Method
- Sift flour with raising agents and stir in sugar or fructose
- Make a well in centre and break egg into it
- Whisk milk into the egg and gradually incorporate the dry ingredients to make a smooth thick batter
- Let batter stand for 30 min's
- Heat a griddle or greased frying pan until very hot
- Drop a few small rounds of batter into the pan, cook over steady heat for about 2 min's
- Turn and repeat