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[katieb]

I have just made a corn bread which is GF & has quite a cake-like texture, but for me is the best GF bread I have come across so far – better if spread with something like butter or nut butter. The ingredients are :

1 oz unsalted butter (to melt in the 8 inch round baking pan) – or use olive oil.

1 cup maize flour
1 oz GF white flour
1/4 – 1/2 tsp xanthan gum (helps to give 'stickability' to the GF flour)
2 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1 cup cold milk (I use soya milk)

Beat all together to a batter. Pour into hot pan and bake about 25 mins at 425 F (or 210 C)

Mine rose up beautifully.

Enjoy !! :roll-laugh:

Katie

[lynnie_sydney]

Katie – that bread sounds delicious! And okay for me cos I can eat corn.

Parisa – the ingredients in the bread in the Country Life range that is both gluten and dairy free (and recommended for me by my naturopath) are: 

water, rice flour, tapioca flour, almond meal, egg, yeast, vegetable oil, sugar, linseed meal, vegetable gums, rice bran, psyllium husks, vinegar salt, emulsifiers, food acid, preservative(220), thiamin.

Pity about the preservatives & yeast but guess it has to both rise and keep unmouldy. Dont have any Tesco's bread at hand. Lynnie 

Be well! Lynnie

Palindromic RA 30 yrs (Chronic Lyme?)
Mino 2003-2008 100mg MWF - can no longer tolerate any tetracyclines
rotating abx protocol now. From Sep 2018 MWF - a.m. Augmentin Duo 440mg + 150mg Biaxsig (roxithromycin). p.m. Cefaclor (375mg) + Klacid 125mg + LDN 3mg + Annual Clindy IV's
Diet: no gluten, dairy, sulphites, low salicylates
Supps: 600mg N-AC BID, 1000mg Vit C, P5P 40mg, zinc picolinate 60mg, Lithium orotate 20mg, Magnesium Oil, Bio-identical hormones (DHEA + Prog + Estrog)

[Parisa]

Thanks Lynnie for posting the ingredients.  Hopefully things will improve here.  Actually the amount of GF products has really increased over the past couple of years.  I just checked into celiac.com which I hadn't checked into for a while and someone mentioned that they were able to use Flex Plan money (pretax dollars) to help pay for their GF products.  They had to get a doctor's note.  I'm going to check with my work and see if it'll fly as the GF products really add up.

[Kim]

Thanks for the recipe, Katie, I'm going to try it.

For the GF white flour, is it rice flour, potato flour, tapioca?

kim

[katieb]

Hi Kim,

The particular flour I use is a blend of rice, potato, tapioca, maize & buckwheat – so a bit of everything really !! It's Doves Farm brand – they do a lot of specialist flours & cereals here, but probably not available in the US. There is this GF tortilla recipe on their website which I want to try out soon (all the corn ones in the supermarkets here seem to have wheat in too). Here's a link :

http://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipe_details.html?ri=23

I hope the corn bread turns out OK for you. It's an adaptation of a recipe I originally found when we were in the USA. The original had 2tsp sugar in also (as well as ordinary wheat flour) but we can live without that can't we !!

Oops – should have included a pinch of salt in the corn bread too.  😕

Happy baking ! Katie 😀

[Trudi]

[user=16]richie[/user] wrote:

Hi

The folks who are low in cholesterol most likely are the folks who dont eat red meat and are on strict diets —Personally I have been fighting high cholesterol for years –it is controlled with statins –I go off the statins -up goes the cholesterol

richie

Hi Richie–

I ate plenty of red meat up until last Tuesday, one of the reasons being that I am also anemic.  I always had plenty of iron in my blood and was warned not to ever take any iron supplements.  I'm just totally confused why the reversal.  I can only conclude that the Lyme/RA is causing this.  Lynnie might be right on track with the fish oil reducing the cholesterol.  My mother had cholesterol problems until she started fish oil.

Have you ever tried Red Yeast Rice?  That works really well for cholesterol–

Trudi

Lyme/RA; AP 4/2008 off and on to 3/2010; past use of quinolones may be the cause of my current problems, (including wheelchair use); all supplements (which can aggravate the condition) were discontinued on 10/14/2012. Am now treating for the homozygous MTHFR 1298 mutation. Off of all pain meds since Spring '14 (was on them for years--doctor is amazed--me too). Back on pain med 1/2017. Reinfected? Frozen shoulder?

[Trudi]

[user=467]katieb[/user] wrote:

There is this GF tortilla recipe on their website which I want to try out soon (all the corn ones in the supermarkets here seem to have wheat in too). Here's a link :

http://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipe_details.html?ri=23

Hi Katie–

I just visited the website and printed up two of their recipes–the Sponge Cake and Rice Bread.  Let us know how the tortilla's turn out.

Thanks for the info–

Trudi

Lyme/RA; AP 4/2008 off and on to 3/2010; past use of quinolones may be the cause of my current problems, (including wheelchair use); all supplements (which can aggravate the condition) were discontinued on 10/14/2012. Am now treating for the homozygous MTHFR 1298 mutation. Off of all pain meds since Spring '14 (was on them for years--doctor is amazed--me too). Back on pain med 1/2017. Reinfected? Frozen shoulder?

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