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4. Baking - general

Pastry GF (gluten free)
Home made GF flour (1)

Baking - general

GF Pastry (1)

For dairy free, use 225 grams Nuttelex  in place of cream cheese and butter.

125 g Philadelphia cream cheese
100 g butter
1 cup GF flour (see below)

Cream Philly cheese and butter until soft. Add flour and mix. Roll out.
Bake at 180°C.
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GLUTEN FREE PASTRY (2)

  We used to make it with FG Roberts GF flour which is really nice but
I have given up using it because the salicylates in the wholegrain corn
meal do affect me, even though it is only a small percentage. I've
switched to Pav's Allergy Bakery gluten free bread mix which contains rice
flour, potato flour and soy flour plus veg gum and raising agents. Do you use guar gum or xanthan gum
in your pastry? That should stop it from crumbling. Of course you will
have to leave the sugar if using it for pies.
 

INGREDIENTS
 (Being gluten-free, this pastry is easier to press in than to roll)
225 gms plain gf flour
1 tsp Ward's gf baking powder
100 gm butter or Nuttelex
25 gm sugar
1 tsp guar gum
water
Sift flour, baking powder and guar gum together. Rub in butter. Add enough
water to form a dough. Press into a 20 cm pie plate. Bake at 200°C 15-20
mins. Cool and fill with prepared filling (above).
Sue D
 

 Home made GF flour (1)

Deborah Halliwell's favourite mix:
1 cup brown rice flour
half a cup of potato starch
half a cup of tapioca starch
2 tsp xanthan gum
2 tsp Ward's baking powder if you want it to rise
When using as a substitute for wheat flour, add 1 tbsp of rice bran per cup of flour.

Nutritionally, it's best to include some soy flour in your GF flour mix if  you can tolerate it.
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RICE FLOUR PIE CRUST

(makes one 23cm pie)

(NMAA Cooks Again recipe no. 3825)

 1 cup brown rice flour
1 tablespoon potato flour (I use arrowroot and its been fine)
1/2 tsp salt
4 tablespoons margarine
4 tablespoons ice water

Combine rice flour, potato flour and salt. Cut in margarine with pastry
blender to fine texture. (I use a fork). Add ice water to form a soft
dough. Pat dough evenly into pie pan. (I always grease it, don't know if
this is necessary.) Bake 15 mins or until nicely browned in 220 degrees C
oven.

The recipe also says "Makes an excellent pizza base and also to surround
smoked frankfurts for sausage rolls". I haven't tried either, but while it
doesn't roll successfully, you could probably make sausage rolls from your
own mix and shape the pastry around them.
Caroline