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I am not but my mum is and over to stay for a few days later this month. Last time she was over I tried making pastry using rice flour (I think) and it was a disaster (when mixed it was nothing like pastry!) so any good tips on pastry/crumble toppings and nice breads, as everyone she has tried has been poor. Ideally after packet mixes or re3ady made pastry (if available) for things like crumbles as I probably wont use flours etc... when she goes.
 
Sibling has coeliac disease so is gluten free. Pastry - you can get gluten free puff pastry from Jus-Rol, which is pretty good for gluten free. We use Dove's farm flour + xanthan gum to help bind for recipes. Crumble toppings - used gluten-free oats* and gluten-free flour combined. Breads are generally poor compared to the real thing. Schar used to be good but changed their recipe so use Genius bread at the moment.

If mum has coeliac disease, she can sign up to two websites (that I cannot remember the name of) who supply sample hampers of gluten free foods.

*oats are normally gluten-free but often processed and handled in factories such that there's risk of gluten contamination.
 
Wife is a coeliac, Genius bread available from most supermarkets although Doves farm do a bread mix you can put in a breadmaker that makes a larger loaf but only good for toasting as too crumbly for sandwiches
Doves farm flours for Yorkshire pudding, we tend not to eat a lot of pastry/crumble so havent perfected any yet, they arnt great bought. Pasta is good although make sure you boil water then add the pasta rather than bring water to the boil with pasta in the pan, it goes very gloopy. Have yet to find a spagetti thats any good.
Other than that its just avoiding things that have wheat flour added for thickening.
 
My brother has coeliac disease.
Not sure we've ever called him "a coeliac".

I remember when he was a kid, for two full years, he literally survived on bananas, because coeliac disease was so poorly understood.
Oh how times have changed.
 
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theres a massive difference between the people who think its a fashionable "healthier" lifestyle and the people who genuinely need a gluten free diet because of coeliac disease. a gluten free diet for someone who doesn't need it is not healthy at all, apart from the fact that gluten free foods tend to have more calories than the normal versions.
 
cambsno said:
I am not but my mum is and over to stay for a few days later this month. Last time she was over I tried making pastry using rice flour (I think) and it was a disaster (when mixed it was nothing like pastry!) so any good tips on pastry/crumble toppings and nice breads, as everyone she has tried has been poor. Ideally after packet mixes or re3ady made pastry (if available) for things like crumbles as I probably wont use flours etc... when she goes.
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Brownies work really well with gluten free flour, our friends daughter suffers from coeliac disease, so always make a batch of those when they come over for dinner.

My attempts at gluten free bread however, have been disastrous.
 
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