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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