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Best Flour For Baking?

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sarahelizabeth Contributor
sarahelizabeth
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We are pulling Gluten from my 3 year olds diet for a trial. I am looking for a suggestion for the best flour substitute?? I make him muffins for breakfast every week and they are the only way I can get veggies in him so I don't want to loose them! What would work well?? It needs to be nut and soy free as well (food allergies).

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purple Community Regular
purple
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Under "Products", there is a thread called "nut/peanut free gluten-free flours". It might help with your Q.

missy'smom Collaborator
missy'smom
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If you are just doing a trial for now, you might want to stick with a mix. Namaste makes baking mixes that are free of other allergens besides gluten. I haven't tried their muffin mix but we really like many of their other mixes.

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CeliacAlli
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We are pulling Gluten from my 3 year olds diet for a trial. I am looking for a suggestion for the best flour substitute?? I make him muffins for breakfast every week and they are the only way I can get veggies in him so I don't want to loose them! What would work well?? It needs to be nut and soy free as well (food allergies).

Bette Hagmans 4 bean flour

lonewolf Collaborator
lonewolf
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I make muffins, cookies, quick breads, etc. with a simple and relatively inexpensive mix. I follow "regular" recipes and almost always have good results. I just made blueberry muffins yesterday (recipe from Betty Crocker) and I'm making crepes for breakfast. Here's the recipe:

3 C Brown rice flour

1 C Potato starch

1/2 C Tapioca starch

2-1/2 tsp. Xanthan gum

Sift together 3 times. Use cup for cup for regular flour. Store in refrigerator.

Kibbie Contributor
Kibbie
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I LOVE Tom Sawyer Flour its pricy but all my Christmas cookies and other family recipies I'm able to substitute it 1 cup for 1 cup and they turn out great.

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crittermom Enthusiast
crittermom
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I also love the Tom Sawyer flour. I use it for EVERYTHING and everyone in my family loves it as well. Most of the time when friends come over and eat baked goods they say... "this is gluten free, you can't even tell" I am able to recreate everything I made prediagnosis so the kids miss out on nothing. It turns out beautiful cookies and cakes. My extended family prefers it to gluten cake especially the mixes. And as far as coating things it works great too. I haven't used it as a thickening agent, I have always used cornstarch with a little water for that purpose so I can't say anything there.

It is wonderful stuff and I am not sure what I would do without it. They ship quickly and while I agree with the last post, it is pricey it is DEFINITELY worth the money. I can't say enough good things about it. I am actually about to orer my next batch now!

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purple Community Regular
purple
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The first post asks about nut and soy free flours so I am asking for that reason. Is Tom Sawyer flour nut and soy free? I use Bob Red Mill products and they are manufactured in a facility that also uses tree nuts and soy. I didn't know that until the other day, someone posted it. I am not allergic but I want to be aware of it for future reference. Thanks for your input.

Esther Sparhawk Contributor
Esther Sparhawk
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We are pulling Gluten from my 3 year olds diet for a trial. I am looking for a suggestion for the best flour substitute?? I make him muffins for breakfast every week and they are the only way I can get veggies in him so I don't want to loose them! What would work well?? It needs to be nut and soy free as well (food allergies).

Sarahelizabeth,

If you're just starting a gluten-free diet, one of the mistakes I made early on, was to assume that you can substitute ONE type of flour for wheat flour. I'm not trying to criticize anyone else's opinions about various flours on the market, but I think you'll find you'll need to buy or make a flour that's mixed/blended. For example, if you try to make sugar cookies using just white rice flour, your cookies turn out crisp like fortune cookies. To lighten it up, you need to mix rice flour with tapioca flour and potato starch flour, or something like that.

When you're also paying for day care and training diapers, it's most cost efficient to buy your own flours and mix them. People tried to tell me this when I started my daughter on a gluten-free diet at age 2, and I was pig headed and chose to learn this lesson the hard way, by baking a bunch of icky stuff first. :o If you stick to three basic flours, it's not as complicated as it might seem. :) Best of luck.

crittermom Enthusiast
crittermom
Posted

The ingredients for the Tom Sawyer Flour are as follows:

White Rice flour

sweet rice flour

tapioca flour

xanthan gum

unflavored gelatin

This is the only thing they make so I don't think that there would be a soy or nut problem however it is something you would want to call about to be absolutely sure. 877.372.8800

shanluts Apprentice
shanluts
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Domata and Better Batter are my favorites. The mixing wasnt for mr. I am a convience person. Domata has the BEST seasoning mix for chicken batter and pizza crust mix.

Better Batter makes THE BEST bread. I use the Brioche bread recipe on her site.

Shannon

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