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Xanthan Gum

Xanthan Gum

So the “Ingredients Alphabet” gig gets a bit tricky with “X” but we have a friend in the cupboard as anything with Gluten is well and truly off the menu here. Xanthan Gum has a cool ability of stop Gluten Free pasty falling apart, it works reasonably well in replacing the elastic properties of Gluten.

So Sue’s Pastry recipe goes a bit like this:-

Ingredients:-

200g Plain Gluten free flour
110g Butter
1 tsp Xanthan Gum
1 Egg beaten with 1 tsp of Milk
Salt

Method:-

(1) Mix all the ingredients as you would with normal pastry.
(2) On a floured board roll your Pastry out.
(3) Press Pastry into your pie tins to form a base and walls.
(4) Add your filling.
(5) Form a lid and stick down with Egg wash if required.
(6) Pop it in the oven at 180c until the filling is piping hot and the Pastry has browned.

Pie, regardless of the filling, needs proper Chips and Beans…...
 

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Vegan - Gluten Free Yorkshire Puddings

We are far from Vegan but the Gluten Free element is required. This was a bit of a challenge Sue set herself when one of our friends who has a Vegan husband remarked that he missed Yorkshire Puddings. They're not quite like a traditional Yorkshire, but they are a pretty good alternative.
 
Some of the flours were tricky to find locally. We used Amazon.
 
Ingredients:-
 
75g Gram flour
25g Cornflour
25g Potato Starch
25g Tapioca flou2 ¼ tsp Baking Powder
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp Turmeric
¼ tsp Dijon Mustard
¾ tsp Cider Vinegar
6 tbsp / 90 ml Aquafaba ( The juice from tinned Chick Peas )
360ml Water
Oil for the tray
 
Method:-
 
(1) Add all the flours, Baking Powder and Salt and whisk them together.
(2) Combine Mustard, Cider Vinegar, Aquafaba & Water and whisk together.
(3) Pour the liquids into the dry ingredients, whisk together until smooth and bubbly.
(4) Pour into a jug and rest for 10 minutes.
(5) Add Oil to muffing tray and heat until smoking hot.
(6) Fill the tray with the liquid almost to the top and cook for 30 / 35 minutes at 220c until golden and crispy.
 
We made two batches one cooked 5 minutes longer (35 minutes) which had a better texture.

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